Survival guide to I18n
In the next installment of the atom guide, I tackle what may very well be the number one issue in ill-formed feeds: character encoding in general, and smart quotes in particular. In the process of producing this documentation, I am struck by two things:
- How hard it is to find all the right pieces, and figure out how they interrelate
- Despite the pervasiveness of the issue addressed here, I'm surprised that I can't readily locate other similar documents.
Perhaps the former is the reason for the latter.
An Atom-Powered Wiki
My latest article, An Atom-Powered Wiki, is now available at XML.com. In this article I cover the steps needed to create an Atom Enabled wiki, paying attention in particular to the character encoding issues. As Sam Ruby has pointed out character...Excerpt from BitWorking at
The Absolute Minimum Every "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" Author Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
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Meta Charset Update
Nearly ten months ago, I set out to tackle internationalization issues on my weblog. My research included not only the specs, but experimentation with web browser software. My conclusion at the time was that they were out of sync. Time for an updat... [more]Trackback from Sam Ruby at
You might add these links to Tim Bray's excellent introduction to unicode and encodings:
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