"A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

Manish Goregaokar manish at mozilla.com
Fri Mar 10 12:55:44 CST 2017


I recently wrote
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/
, which sort of addresses the whole hangup programmers have with
treating code points as "characters".

I also wrote http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-latin-1-assumptions/
that provides a useful list of scripts to check against when figuring
out if your design makes sense uniformly across scripts.


There's also https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/
-Manish


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
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> http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/
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> The visuals may be the most interesting part. E.g., in the usage heat map,
> Arabic Presentation Forms-B lights up much more than I would have expected –
> as much as a lot of emoji.
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> Peter



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