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March 15, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Das Buch der verrückten Experimente

March 15, 2006 Mar 15, 2006 03/15/06
Raymond Chen
The Annals of Improbable Research tipped me off to Reto Schneider's Das Buch der verrückten Experimente (The Book of Weird Experiments in English), a collection of descriptions of one hundred scientific experiments throughout the course of history. As you might expect from the title, the experiments are all somewhat strange, yet ...

On the fuzzy definition of a "Unicode application"

March 15, 2006 Mar 15, 2006 03/15/06
Raymond Chen
Commenter mpz wondered why the IME cannot detect whether it is sending characters to a Unicode or non-Unicode application and generate the appropriate character accordingly. But what exactly is a Unicode application? Actually, let me turn the question around: What is a non-Unicode application? Suppose you write a program and don't , so you'...