Unicode character sets for testing font coverage

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. Continue reading

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Better localization for filenames on Windows, OS X and Linux

If you have a localized application, at some stage you’ll discover that you need to localize filenames – for example if you have a set of template files. This is quite a tricky problem because it’s very hard to maintain a list of localized files and you can’t use diff tools for comparing them because they have different names.

It’s a good idea to keep the filenames not localized but to “localize” them on-the-fly – only when you show them to the user. Continue reading

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