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		<title>Unicode 6.1 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Unicode Consortium announced the release of Unicode 6.1.0 yesterday. The new version adds characters for additional languages in China, other Asian countries and Africa. This version of the standard introduces 732 new characters. In addition, the standard also added &#8220;labels&#8221; for character properties that will supposedly help implementers create better regular expressions that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terminology: Unicode Character Encoding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog, I described the terms character set, charset, and coded character set. In this blog, we&#8217;ll take a small step forward to define a few more terms: encoding form code unit encoding scheme Before going to much further, you can get all the information in this blog from a much more authoritative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unicode Terminology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sometimes asked whether Unicode is a 16-bit character set. The answer is not a simple no, but it is no. The question always reminds me how important terminology is too. Terminology is the focus of this particular post. At one point long ago, when Unicode was a relative newcomer to the character set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Combining Sequences for Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I just happened to be looking through some of the precomposed Unicode circled numbers, numbers like ①, ②, ③, and so on. Just in case your system, doesn&#8217;t support the fonts for these characters, here&#8217;s an image that shows what I mean: I wasn&#8217;t all that surprised to see these CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO, CIRCLED [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encoding Unicode Characters When UTF-8 Is Not An Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I suggested that you use UTF-8 to encode your Java source code files. I still think that&#8217;s a best practice. If you can do that, you owe it to yourself to follow that advice. But what if you can&#8217;t store text as UTF-8? Perhaps your repository won&#8217;t allow it. Or maybe you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best practice: Use UTF-8 as your source code encoding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software engineering teams have become more distributed in the last few years. It&#8217;s not uncommon to have programmers in multiple countries, maybe a team in Belarus and others in Japan and in the U.S. Each of these teams most likely speaks different languages, and most likely their host systems use different character encodings by default. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attending IUC 34 and career longevity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joconner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few years being away from the internationalization crowd, I&#8217;m attending the Internationalization and Unicode Conference again this year. How great to see old friends and to make new ones. Some things are new &#8212; some new people. However, many things are old or definitely older. What&#8217;s old? Well, for one, the problems. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These characters aren&#8217;t exotic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to sign up for health benefits with a 3rd party site that manages these things for my employer. Sites that collect data often limit the set of characters that you must use for each field. That&#8217;s reasonable for numeric fields, date fields, etc. After all, you don&#8217;t want invalid data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Internationalization and Unicode Web Service?</title>
		<link>http://joconner.com/2009/07/i18n-web-service/</link>
		<comments>http://joconner.com/2009/07/i18n-web-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joconner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are that your favorite development platform already has internationalization support built into it. And probably Unicode charset support is there too. For example, Java and .NET platforms contain lots of APIs for formatting dates, numbers, etc in locale-sensitive ways. And you can get Unicode character data easily too. Unfortunately, the Unicode standard changes periodically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unicode support doesn&#8217;t mean your application is internationalized</title>
		<link>http://joconner.com/2008/10/unicode-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joconner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I&#8217;ve helped many organizations internationalize their software products. One of the most common misunderstandings is how Unicode will help their product. Customers sometimes mistakenly believe that Unicode support will be sufficient to internationalize their products. Sometimes they believe that Unicode &#8220;support&#8221; is a single, yes-no, on-off ability, when instead Unicode support is [...]]]></description>
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