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HP's first 13.3-inch Pavilion vs. the competition
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:18 -0700
HP is shipping its first laptop with a 13.3-inch widescreen display. The HP Pavilion dv3500t series is already available on HP's site starting at $1,000, and a slightly higher-end configuration, the dv3520nr, is available for pre-order at Best Buy for $1,200. Other sites have reported that this model will be...
A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve?
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:22:06 -0700
It sounds like Microsoft has yet another Professional Developers Conference PDC announcement percolating -- beyond the Windows 7, Oslo, cloud OS (Red Dog/Zurich) and Mesh Platform stuff about which the company already has been dropping hints. by Mary Jo Foley
Google talks efficient data centers
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700
Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...
Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:17:23 -0700
Apple has hit back against claims made by Mac-clone maker Psystar that the company is operating in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act and will be asking the U.S. District Court judge to dismiss to dismiss the counterclaim. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:08:55 -0700
Nolan insists that "third party applications" will be what get HealthVault over the top, and it's in making those available that he hopes the system will prove its value. by Dana Blankenhorn
Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:47:18 -0700
Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...

 

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Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML - A guide to displaying thousands of foreign and special characters in Web pages, with the aid of Unicode, plus notes on suitable multilingual browsers, fonts, editors and other utilities. Includes lists of the characters in each Unicode range that can be used to test browsers and fonts.
Meta Description: [ A guide to displaying thousands of foreign and special characters in Web pages, with the aid of Unicode, plus notes on suitable multilingual browsers, fonts, editors and other utilities. Includes lists of the characters in each Unicode range that can be used to test browsers and fonts. ]

Adobe: Unicode and Glyph Names - A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.

ConScript Unicode Registry - Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.

Decimal, Hexadecimal Character Codes in HTML Unicode - An online tool for converting between multinational characters and their decimal and hexadecimal equivalents.
Meta Description: [ Online HTML Unicode Encode/Decode Converter: Characters to/from Decimal and Hexadecimal HTML Unicode Numeric Character References ]

Demystifying Unicode - Information on technical aspects from SimulTrans.
Meta Description: [ SimulTrans provides customized globalization solutions for software localization, internationalization, and technical translation. ]

F4: ASCII - Unicode Bridge - Online service that converts ASCII text with simple codes for almost all accents in Romanized scripts to fully accented Unicode 4.0.

Fingertipsoft: Character Set Converter - Converts multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets.
Meta Description: [ Character Set Converter - Easily convert multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets. ]

Fontboard - Multilingual fonts and keyboard layouts for Unicode-compliant and pre-Unicode applications. Also contains information on CJK, Maltese, Esperanto, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew and links to related resources.

Free Online Unicode Character Map - Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications, plus search engines tools. Requires Javascript.
Meta Description: [ Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications ]

IBM developerWorks: Unicode - A developer resource for building applications for a worldwide audience, with technical and editorial articles.
Meta Description: [ The Java technology section on the developerWorks Web site is your resource for information on Java-based products, programming, and happenings in the fast-paced world of Java development. ]

International Unicode Conferences - Contains a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Contains details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events.

Linux Unicode How-to - How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)

Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Unicode Utilities - Utilities from Apple for the Mac OS environment. Some documents require Acrobat Reader.

Microsoft : Unicode Codepages - A list of common codepages with tables in text and graphical formats.

MyMyanmar - Information on Unicode support for writing Myanmar text and related software/fonts.
Meta Description: [ The Myanmar (Burma) Unicode And Localization Information And Resource Research Center. Myanmar Unicode and Myanmar Language Applications. ]

On the Goodness of Unicode - Explains the purpose and use of Unicode.

Sharmahd Computing UniPad - A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.
Meta Description: [ SC UniPad is a Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems. ]

404 Sun Microsystems: Unicode Support in Solaris 7 - Information for software developers interested in Unicode support in this operating environment, including an overview, multilingual support in Solaris, application development and codeset conversions.

Tackling a Daunting Task - Eugene Eric Kim reviews Unicode: A Primer
Meta Description: [ Internet Strategies for Technology Leaders, New Architect is a monthly publication serving highly qualified technology leaders who drive the purchase and integration of Internet and emerging technology solutions into their core business processes. Written by technical insiders, New Architect prov... ]

404 The Secret Life of Unicode - A look at some of Unicode's weak points and disadvantages.
Meta Description: [ The page you requested cannot be displayed (HTTP response code 404) ]

The Unicode Consortium - The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.
Meta Description: [ The Unicode Consortium and The Unicode Standard ]

The Unicode Standard - The online edition of version 4.1.0 of this standard.

TITUS - Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.
Meta Description: [ TITUS Is Testing Unicode Scriptmanagement ]

Unicode Blocks - A list of the standard Unicode blocks.
Meta Description: [ A chart showing a list of common Unicode Blocks, based on Unicode ranges ]

Unicode Example - Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.
Meta Description: [ Several examples demonstrating compelling business uses of Unicode using UTF-8, UTF-16, and demonstrating supplementary characters. ]

Unicode Fonts - Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.
Meta Description: [ Unicode Fonts ]

Unicode Support in Your Browser - Test browser and operating system compatibility. Also downloadable Unicode fonts and links to other resources and references.
Meta Description: [ Test Unicode support in your browser/system fonts. Download Code2000 shareware Unicode-based font. Links to Unicode resources and references. ]

Unicode Translation to UTF-8 - A short series of tables showing how Unicode translates into an eight bit format.
Meta Description: [ UTF-8 hypertext markup codes for international writing systems. ]

500 Unicode Tutorial - A reference to Unicode terms and concepts aimed at a basic to intermediate level.
Meta Description: [ Unicode tutorial ]

Unicode, MBCS and Generic text conversion - A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.
Meta Description: [ A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets simple and painless ]

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ - A comprehensive resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.
Meta Description: [ All you need to know to use Unicode/UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems. ]

UTF-8 Conversion Tool - Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.

UTF-8 Sampler - Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.

Who doesn't know what Unicode is? - C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.

Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political and Technical Limitations - A paper outlining issues with encoding all the world's character sets within the limitations of the existing Unicode standards, and the possible impact this will have on East Asian languages.
Meta Description: [ Linguistic, Political, and Technical Limitations. ]

Wikipedia - Unicode - A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.

Zvon Character Reference - A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values, which can be downloaded for off-line use.

Zvon Character Search - Finds properties of Unicode characters and determines its usage in XML documents. It also enables search of HTML and MathML entities and searches based on visual similarity. A browse by scripts, blocks or digits is also available.