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As we saw in other entries of the series, the Unicode standard is much more then a map between codes and characters. Many if not most operations on characters such as changing case, sorting,...
As we saw in other entries of the series, the Unicode standard is much more then a map between codes and characters. Many if not most operations on characters such as changing case, sorting,...
Last march, I had the pleasure to talk about coded character sets history at one seminar of the Gouvernance et régulation d’Internet workgroup of the CIS (Centre internet et société). I’d like to thank...
This the second part of the entry on Unicode Properties and Regular Expressions. The first part dealt with Unicode character properties Now we’re ready to use properties in pattern matching. But, first, a quick...
This the first part of the entry on Unicode Properties and Regular Expressions. This parts deals more specifically with Unicode character properties and how to find them in the Unicode Character Database. Use of...
In the preceding entries of this series, we have mostly dealt with encoding issues, that is to say how the Unicode Standard attempts to solve the encoding problem and problems caused by characters encoding...
I’ve started a series on the Unicode standard. At first, I just was just planning to make a couple of entries on using Unicode properties with regular expressions but I got a little carried...
In a previous post, we covered the Unicode Standard character set internal organization. It’s now time to get real and see how Unicode is actually used by taking a look at encodings. The Unicode...
This is a follow-up of a previous post on Unicode. Here, we will cover the Unicode Standard internal organization and introduce important features like planes, blocks and Unicode properties. Along the way, we’ll also...
As shown in a previous post, processing character data may hold a fair share of unpleasant surprises. Again, what you see is not necessarily what you get and a working knowledge of how character...
Some time ago, someone posted a message on a mailing list presenting the following intriguing problem. When filtering on a condition based on a string in a column called OCCUPATION that looked like this,...