"UNSCII", #viznut’s set of bitmapped #Unicode #fonts designed for #semigraphics.
on 02026-01-14Ed Trager’s old notes from #Unifont about getting #Unicode working in #Linux and #Unix, from the Fribidi days. #documentation
on 02025-12-14#Unicode private use area unofficial assignments by Michael Everson and John Cowan, the “ConScript Unicode Registry”
on 02025-12-13#Unicode private use area unofficial unofficial assignments by Rebecca G. Bettencourt, the “under-ConScript Unicode Registry”
on 02025-12-13the #Unicode #security problem with #bidi override characters
on 02025-08-27my post about how #Rust’s approach to handling #Unicode introduces unnecessary bugs into command-line programs
on 02025-08-24The #Rust official #documentation ("The Rust Programming Language") recommends crashing when your command-line arguments aren’t valid #UTF-8! #Unicode #braindamage
on 02025-08-23how #Unicode fucked up our quote characters, with an overview of the historical use of the 0x27 apostrophe ' mark.
Egyptian #phallus hieroglyphic #Unicode character.
on 02023-07-03The standard #Unicode collation algorithm
on 02021-01-13Björn’s table-driven UTF-8 decoder in 10 lines of C, not counting the 384-byte table. #Unicode #algorithms #smallisbeautiful
on 02017-04-26Martin v. Löwis got #Unicode #UTF-8B implemented in Python 3! Or something very much like it. Unfortunately, it’s not the default.
on 02015-08-14The #UTF-8B #Unicode code still survives.
on 02015-08-14#numpy #unicode kind of sucks. numpy.frombuffer(u'¿cómo estás?', dtype=numpy.uint16) shows that my Python is using UCS-4 for Unicode strings in memory.