Tag: unicode

3 posts

There's a Cross Emoji. There's No Pentacle. That's Not Nothing.

None of the existing pentagrams are a pentacle anyway, which is the detail that gets lost every time this comes up.

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Ewan’s Blog
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Jul 9, 2026
Intl.Segmenter(): Don't use string.split() nor string.length

Intl.Segmenter(): Don't use string.split() nor string.length

UTF is tricky: the length of a string can mean a lot of different things based on whether you want the number of code points, code units, and graphemes. What are the differences, and how can we navigate through those using JavaScript?

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Projects by Ayc0
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Jul 24, 2023

ÆØÅ m.m. i LaTeX

Det kan være noe upraktisk å skrive og lese {\o} for «ø», {\aa} for «å». Tidligere var det vanlig å bruke latin1, men nyere LaTeX kan en en bruke utf8 som inputenc. Det betyr ikke at en kan skrive full unicode, men det vil i de fleste tilfeller dekke behovet for vesteuropa. NB! Dette ble...

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Feb 27, 2008