Articles Tagged “Unicode”
3 articles tagged “Unicode”, newest first.
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Japanese Font and Character Pitfalls — Handling JIS2004, Ideographic Variation Selectors, and Gaiji in Business Apps
Character trouble in business systems sorts itself out once you separate character codes (data) from fonts (appearance). Covers JIS2004 glyph changes, IVS, a...
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Windows Text Encodings and Line Endings - The Basics of Mojibake and CRLF/LF
Why text gets garbled on Windows and why CRLF vs LF still causes trouble. How UTF-8, UTF-16, and CP932 (Shift_JIS) differ, plus rules that prevent mojibake.
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An Introduction to Windows Text Encodings - The Mojibake That Happens When Integrating with Linux
A practical look at why mojibake happens on Windows, through the differences between CP932, UTF-8, UTF-16, BOMs, code pages, PowerShell, and Linux locales.