Dr. International

Use Unicode!

September 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023 09/12/23

Shawn Steele

Recently there were some updates that changed the behavior of a national encoding standard, changing the behavior when mapping to and from Unicode.  Those kinds of changes lead to data corruption.  I figured I'd take this opportunity to remind folks of the benefits of "using Unicode!" Unicode Benefits...

Welcome to “Dr. International”

April 1, 2021 Apr 1, 2021 04/1/21

Shawn Steele

Hi!  We've created this space to share some thoughts about software internationalization. Internationalization is a really long word, so we've truncated the URL to just "i18n".  There are 18 letters between the "i" and the "n" in "internationalization", so i18n is a bit of a shortcut.  (Another common abbreviation in this space is l10n ...