Tag Archives: unicode
Unicode for Rails
I finally gave my talk this afternoon. I rushed through things in 40 minutes; I was planning on 45, but I started a little late due to microphone difficulties. The talk seemed to go down well; a few people came … Continue reading
Character Info in Textmate
One rather useful feature of vim is that you can pull up information about a character by positioning your cursor over it and hitting ga (get ASCII?). I quite miss this in textmate, so I created a small command to … Continue reading
Unicode Depresses Me
Perl is meant to have reasonable Unicode support. So why do I still have to write this at the top of a test? use utf8; use Test::More ‘no_plan’; { my $Test = Test::Builder->new; binmode( $Test->output, “:utf8″ ); binmode( $Test->failure_output, “:utf8″ … Continue reading
Unicode for Rails — accepted
I had a little note today to say that my talk on “Unicode for Rails” has been accepted for RailsConf Europe 2006. Yay! Now I have to write the thing. This is going to be interesting. I have only a … Continue reading
Character Encodings
There have been a few links around to an article about AJAX and Multibyte Character Support today. He highlights how he fixed a problem by ensuring that he sent the correct HTTP headers for the character encoding he was using. … Continue reading
XSLT Character Creation
I’ve just spent most of the afternoon on a character building exercise. I have some XML like this: <symbol unicode=”2103″/> And I need to turn that into the numeric character reference –. It’s perfectly possible to do so with a … Continue reading
Java Unicode Characters
Working on jenx, I’ve started looking at Characters. In particular, Astral characters. My first question was “how do I create one in a string literal?” Well I still don’t know. But my researches have shown that to do anything outside … Continue reading