Tag Archives: Unicode

Newbie guide to Unicode

Posted on 2010/08/12 by sorin

I compiled a small list of things that any developer should know about Unicode.

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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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Web content, code pages and UTF-8 Unicode encoding

Posted on 2008/12/15 by sorin

If you want to minimize the number of bugs reported for your web application you should know that codepages are domain of the past. If you want to create multi-language web content all you have to remember is that you … Continue reading →

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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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