Category Archives: Output

Articles related to output like printing, rendering, displaying of internationalized media (text, video, GUIs …)

iOS and Romanian language

Posted on 2011/03/12 by sorin

First I have to confess that I’m pleased about the amount of attention Apple gave to supporting Romanian language on iOS 4.3 (iPhone/iPad/iPod). I remember reporting few bugs to them regarding Romanian support and I was glad to discover that … Continue reading →

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Apple failing to support high-DPI on iTunes

Posted on 2010/11/02 by sorin

The irony is that Apple who created the smartphone with the greatest DPI ever, is unable to add high DPI support for their iTunes application. Here is how the latest iTunes 10 application under Windows 7 on a computer that … Continue reading →

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Basic Unicode readiness testing for your application

Posted on 2010/04/29 by sorin

Unicode is a very complex standard, always evolving, but this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do some basic testing, in order to uncover hidden bugs.

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Using Unicode console output with Python

Posted on 2010/01/06 by sorin

On Windows console and Unicode are not quite friends. Here is some code that I use in order to assure that my Python scripts output is consistent on all platforms and is supporting Unicode encoded as UTF-8.

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Using msdev resource editor to create Unicode dialogs that will not display well

Posted on 2009/04/21 by sorin

I was surprised to discover that creating Unicode UI elements in the resource editor of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) does work, BUT when you compile your application they will fail to display well.

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Unicode character sets for testing font coverage

Posted on 2008/09/26 by sorin

Testing Unicode coverage for fonts is always a problem and I decided to create a simple set of character sets for testing the coverage. I’ve splitted them by language groups based on regions. Using these strings should be quite easy.

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