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Sorting it all Out : UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 11: Turning it up to Eleven!

2009 Nov 16, 7:40Part 11 (of 11?) in a series on why you shouldn't freak out about the transition from UCS2 to UTF16. The answer is: you're already doing it wrong.

Sorting it all Out : What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

2009 Mar 6, 11:47"Anyway, I decided to take the letter a and put as many different diacritics on it as I could." Micahel Kaplan sticks like 80 diacritics on the letter 'a'. Awesome.

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Meteorology Law of the People's Republic of China -- china.org.cn

2009 Feb 4, 4:16From Sorting it all Out wrt the weather gadget in Vista's sidebar, this link to China's laws on weather forecast: "Article 22 The State applies a unified system for the issue of public meteorological forecast and severe weather warning... No other organizations or individuals may issue to the community such forecast or warning." "Article 25 When the media, including radio, television, newspaper and telecommunication, issue to the community public meteorological forecast or severe weather warning, they shall use the latest meteorological information provided by a meteorological office... Part of the revenues from the distribution of meteorological information shall be drawn to support the development of meteorological service." Whether an application is legally allowed to provide a weather forecast is not an attribute I would have imagined necessary for a localization API.

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Sorting It All Out : It isn't really PenIsland/PenisLand all over again

2007 Oct 12, 10:04FTA: 'From just released Microsoft security bulletin: "..formerly known as Wang Image Viewer, handles specifically crafted images files.."'. Specially crafted eh?

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