Basic Unicode readiness testing for your application

Posted by sorin on 2010-04-29 0 comments

Unicode is a very complex thing that is always evolving but this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do some basic testing in order to uncover hidden bugs. (more…)

Using Unicode console output with Python

Posted by sorin on 2010-01-06 0 comments

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. (more…)

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

Posted by sorin on 2009-04-21 1 comment

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. (more…)

Unicode character sets for testing font coverage

Posted by sorin on 2008-09-26 3 comments

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. (more…)