Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Zen of Unicode
I attended David Goodger's Unicode talk at PyCon earlier this year and I thought I'm well on my way to Unicode enlightenment. It turns out I still need to chop a lot of wood, carry a lot of water before I attain this particular Zen...In the hope that other people will find it useful, here's a mini-tutorial on Unicode in the form of an email message from David, who responded in excruciating detail to some Unicode-related questions I sent him. I tried to copy and paste the text into the Blogger editor, only to get all sorts of markup-related errors, so I just put it on a Trac wiki. Hopefully David will soon publish his Unicode tutorial on the Web. Until then, happy Unicode hacking!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Modifying EC2 security groups via AWS Lambda functions
One task that comes up again and again is adding, removing or updating source CIDR blocks in various security groups in an EC2 infrastructur...
-
Here's a good interview question for a tester: how do you define performance/load/stress testing? Many times people use these terms inte...
-
I've been using dnspython lately for transferring some DNS zone files from one name server to another. I found the package extremely us...
-
Update 02/26/07 -------- The link to the old httperf page wasn't working anymore. I updated it and pointed it to the new page at HP. Her...
1 comment:
Now consider this:
- You send utf-8 encoded links to a browser.
- User clicks on a link
- What do you get back in the request url on your webserver?
I'l enlighten you:
- In general the url gets urlquoted, so you have to urlunquote.
- IE will return you the url in the encoding you send it
- Mozilla/Firefox will send you latin-1 if there's no non latin-1 characters in your link. It will send you utf-8 however if there are...
X.x
Post a Comment