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Last year, a classic Mojibake was introduced when Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en...
Last year, Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht sent me a paper letter notifying the yearly water bill was going to be late as they were redesigning their IT systems. Their letter introduced a classic...
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Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by...
Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot: Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount. This promotional offer is valid through...
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How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp
Like me, [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp is a nerd. Unlike me, Kris bumped into character encoding issues for just about all his digital life. That started about the same time as mine, but again unlike...
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Unicode symbols in a batch file – Stack Overflow
Even with a batch file saved as UTF-8 (with or without BOM), by default it does not show most non-ASCII Unicode characters. The reason is that the default codepage usually is an ANSI one like codepage...
View ArticleHardware MAC address formats (which I need for Wake-on-LAN.ps1)
Early june, I blogged about Wake-on-LAN from a Windows machine. My plan was to adopt [Wayback/Archive.is] Wake.ps1 into Wake-on-LAN.ps1 (as naming is important). One of the goals was to support...
View ArticleHistory of ASCII Art
Geocities is long dead, but luckily a lot has been archived: [Wayback] Archive.is: History of ASCII Art with a very comprehensive history ranging from ancient old hand painted art to contemporary...
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A while ago I bumped into some GPI Mojibake examples, but soon found out I...
I have been into more and more Mojibake example pages like [Wayback] Mojibake: Question Marks, Strange Characters and Other Issues | GPI Have you ever found strange characters like these ��� when...
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Do not use non-ASCII characters as identifiers – not all your tools support...
For a very long time I’ve discouraged people from using non-ASCII characters in identifiers. It still holds. In the past, transliterations messed things up. Even with increased support for Unicode,...
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CyberChef: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife – a web app for encryption, encoding,...
[Wayback/Archive.is] CyberChef: a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of “cyber” operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR or Base64, more...
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Berlin Typography on Twitter: “The best of #TypeInBerlin: The tʒ and ſʒ...
Learned a new thing a while ago: I knew about the ſʒ ligature (that nowadays usually is written as ß), but the tʒ ligature was new to me. So: Güntʒelstraſʒe == Güntzelstraße. References:...
View ArticleI learned: MacOS has a Unicode Hex Input keyboard
A while ago, I learned that MacOS has had a Unicode Hex Input keyboard since ages. It is not installed by default, so you have to manually add it: Start the System Preferences.app Open the Keyboard...
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Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as...
Please do not overdo Unicode outside the ASCII realm for identifiers and stay away from Emoji: [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable...
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Some notes on codepoints.net and beta.codepoints.net
At the time of writing a lot of this might be more recent, but for quite some time codepoints.net had not been updated with code point information newer Unicode releases. Basically it was stuck at...
View ArticleThe regexp for an emoticon ?
I responded to [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@0xD4ni @Twitter What is the regexp for an emoticon ?” with [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@jilles_com @0xD4ni @Twitter...
View ArticleThe mojibake “creëer”
A while ago, I found the “creëer” mojibake in a Dutch page on the IKEA site. They were not alone to make this mistake which is easily explained using [Wayback/Archive] ftfy: >>>...
View ArticleUnicode spaces (not just en and em, but also em fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6,...
For my link archive (please check the page as by now the table might have changed from what I quote below) [Wayback/Archive] Unicode spaces and the WordPress classic editor might have mangled it. I...
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Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫
I wish I had bumped into this page a way sooner as it contains most if not all the keyboard symbols I ever looked for: [Wayback/Archive] Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫ The page contains a lot more...
View ArticleAs a tribute to their @isotopp handle history, Kris now changed its name to...
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “LOL, just saw @isotopp changed…” – Mastodon LOL, just saw @isotopp changed his name to Köhntopp Well done, Kris. Well done. https://ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö (...
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Notities Warmink / Wuba staande klok met drie melodieëen en wijzers voor...
Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock. Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer,...
View ArticleUnicode subscripts and superscripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA tables;...
I originally searched for the tables below to see if I could get the visualisations of TeX and LaTeX right for infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in...
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