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An Overview of Unicode at Wikipedia

Written by Patrick Hall, November 30th, 2005

I just ran across this and found it so useful that I thought I’d give it a quick mention here:

Mapping of Unicode characters.

If you’re new to Unicode, or even if you’re not, this is a great summary of the “big picture.”

(And speaking of big pictures of Unicode… this one is certainly not to be missed: “I estimated I could print the whole thing on about a 36″×36″ poster. Well, my estimates were off. It turned out to be about 6 feet by 12 feet…”)

What languages can your browser see?

Written by Patrick Hall, November 28th, 2005

Congratulations to Global Voices!

Written by Patrick Hall, November 24th, 2005

Flags are a dumb way to represent languages

Written by Patrick Hall, November 21st, 2005

The images are lovely, but I’d prefer text thank you very much.

Written by Patrick Hall, November 14th, 2005

If you are writing an application that deals with multilingual content…

Written by Patrick Hall, November 9th, 2005

Do you hate changing keyboard layouts?

Written by Patrick Hall, November 5th, 2005

How do Screen Readers identify languages?

Written by Patrick Hall, November 2nd, 2005