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2005-12-19

02:37:17, Categories: Web development, Linux

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ

In-depth explanation of Unicode and UTF-8. Might be handy when I try to fix the encoding of comments which got broken when recovering from a backup. Apparently something went wrong with the encoding of special characters (Latvian, Russian, ...) when the backup was created.

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Comment from: captsolo [Member]

A tutorial on character code issues

UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms

Windows 1257 and Unicode

PHP and Unicode [presentation in pdf]

Permalink 2005-12-19 @ 18:17

Comment from: Martin-Éric [Visitor] · http://q-funk.iki.fi

A friend has a wiki where he tries to document remaining issues preventing the migration to UTF-8 for Russian and other Cyrillic languages. We welcome contributuons.

Permalink 2006-01-16 @ 14:25

Comment from: Martin-Éric [Visitor] · http://q-funk.iki.fi

Btw, should we create ru_EE and ru_LV locales while we're at it? If you agree, then I think that these should be submitted to the Debian package 'belocs-locales-data' (since the libc6 'locales' is hopelessly outdated and its maintainer, Ulrich Drepper, refuses to add or correct erroneous data).

Permalink 2006-01-16 @ 14:41

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