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13 Dec 2013
It's Not Just Code, It's Unicode
Andrew Pontious talks hexy to Wolf Rentzsch by going on at length about Unicode: its design, its planes (astral and otherwise), and its UTF-16 and UTF-8 encodings. Plus: backup followup.
Links:
- International Backup Awareness Day « Coding Horror
- Backing Up Live VMware Fusion Virtual Machines « rentzsch.tumblr.com
- Using ZFS Snapshots on Time Machine backups. « Matt Connolly’s Blog
- Bavarious tweet: “Some NSString operations in the light of @edaqa’s ‘The string type is broken’ post: http://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/”
- The string type is broken « Musing Mortoray ~ On Programming and Language Design
- Unicode « Wikipedia
- Plane (Dungeons & Dragons)
- UTF-32 « Wikipedia
- UTF-16 « Wikipedia
- UTF-8 « Wikipedia
- Bitsplitting | Chasing the impossible with Daniel Jalkut
- Byte order mark « Wikipedia
- Combining character « Wikipedia
- Precomposed character « Wikipedia
- Technical Q&A QA1235: Converting to Precomposed Unicode
- The Case Against Insensitivity « Recording Artist
- Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names « lists-archives.com
Rejected Episode Titles:
- I Have My Own Misgivings About This Topic
- Not Only Because It Destroyed Your System
- I Could Never Find the Emotional Strength
- We Warned You About This, Nicholas
- Don’t Quote Me on That
- Backup Itself Is Such a Terrible Topic
- In the Corner There, Sulking
- He’s Taken the Arrows in the Back for Us
- Or Umlaut, If You’re German
- Automate Ourselves Away
- A Bit of a Scope Increase
- Talk Hexy to Me
- I Don’t Even Know What’s in There
- How Wikipedia Thinks That Works
- It Cracks Me Up When You Read Binary
- It’s a Magic Cookie
- Two Thingies to Represent One Character
- If You Want to Wake the Beast
- Given Unicode, That Way Lies Madness
- Dammit, Stop This Idiocy