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I have talked about WinZip and Zip in the past, in particular their odd relationship with Unicode, in blogs like: Zipping up Unicode file names Unicode? Zip don't need no stinking Unicode! Sometimes, you have to keep it in ASCII Zipping up Unicode file Read More...
I have talked in the past about my feelings regarding the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in blogs such as The torrents of U+fffd (aka When security and conformance trump compatibility and reality) . And I have even mentioned in the A less intelligent strain of Read More...
There has been a lot of recent buzz based on the Moving to Unicode 5.1 post in the googleblog written by Mark Davis. Enough that people keep sending me email asking if I had seen it, much of that traffic being there because I haven't blogged about it Read More...
Recently while paying attention to The Unicode List I was once again reminded why I don't pay more attention to The Unicode List . :-) Specifically it was a thread started by Andreas Prilop: I refer to http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT Read More...
They say that you could put just the word Playboy or Hugh Hefner or a picture of the Playboy Bunny on an envelope and if the postage is right then it will make its way to the mansion. It is funny to imagine that kind of fuzzy matching at work, and not Read More...
Dmitry asked via the Contact link: Hello Michael! As far as I understand, some wide char can be in only one of Unicode subranges listed e.g. at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776439(VS.85).aspx , so its value determines its code page. But Read More...
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Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Over Read More...
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