Articles by Tag #unicode

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Unicode, Emojis, and a bit of Golang

Lately, I have had an issue with my Fedora Linux installation displaying emojis in the OS UI and...

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Implementing UTF-8 Encoding in Zig

tl;dr Created a library to read/write UTF-8 encoded Unicode values in Zig for my simple text editor....

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New Emojis

The Unicode emoji standard edition 16 was released September 2024....

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Special Characters in Software Development: A Quick Guide

Every software developer will inevitably come across special characters at some point in their...

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Considerations for Unicode and Searching

In previous posts here and on Twitter (now X) I've written about using Unicode and UTF-8 in general...

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Go's UTF-8 Support: An Interesting Limitation

I've been exploring Go's UTF-8 support lately, and was curious about how well it handles non-Latin...

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Por que você deve repensar o uso de Regex em validações de strings em Go

Neste post, vamos analisar a performance de regex em Go e apresentar uma alternativa mais eficiente para validação de strings alfanuméricas usando a biblioteca Unicode. Veremos também por que, quando usar regex, você deve compilá-lo fora do método para otimizar a performance.

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Character Encoding with the Python os module and Unicode

descriptions of how surrogateescape allows for recovering invalid byte sequences in strings of unspecified encoding

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JSON to CSV for Excel: a note on CSV and encoding

There are multiple JS libraries that allow export to excel. But what if we want to follow a...

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Unicode Text Converter v1.0

🎉 Initial Release 🎉 We are excited to announce the first release of the Unicode Text Converter! This...

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UnicodeFix: The Day Invisible Characters Broke Everything

From Frustration to Fix This all started maybe five days ago with a Python script that...

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Latin Ligatures in Unicode (and fonts)

This is a provisional list of complete ligatures to include in a "pro" level typography font... that...

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Why Social Media Platforms Restrict Custom Fonts and Rich Text Formatting

Introduction While working on a proof of concept (POC) for a project, I needed to ensure...

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Character Encoding and Rendering

Introduction to Character Encoding Character encoding is a method used to convert text...

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Unicode-Search - my first Electron app!

I am a Unix greybeard who mostly works in perl and shell programming, with a bit of dabbling in C and...

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https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2580

A post by Dobby33

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From 'A' to '😊': How Programming Languages Handle Strings

Strings: The Unsung Heroes of Programming Magic When it comes to programming, some data...

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`\e` Escape Sequence in C# 13 — A Cleaner Way to Emit the ESC Character

\e Escape Sequence in C# 13 — A Cleaner Way to Emit the ESC Character In C# 13, the...

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