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Dystextia, Apfelstrudel, Rosettavert and unorml updated for High Sierra

Tools for examining Unicode normalisation, converting between text encodings, and for obfuscating text using similar Unicode characters.

September 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS: iOS 11 and High Sierra will fix normalisation problems

Apple now states that APFS will handle the problems of normalisation of file and folder names. At least in iOS 10.3.3 and macOS 10.12.6, due shortly.

July 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra and filenames: Apple is relenting

Apple is making adjustments to its new APFS file system for iOS. Will that bring similar improvements in compatibility to High Sierra?

July 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mangle that text more with Dystextia 1.2

This new version has performance improvements, and can now encode almost every character in normal English text to an obscure Unicode codepoint. Total obfuscation!

July 3, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Of characters and closures

There are lots of different ways to modify a string, but some would turn out to be very inefficient. A gentle wander through CharacterView and a mapping closure.

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Why we can’t keep stringing along with Unicode

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Unicode is wonderful, a foundation for culture, but flawed. With characters that are visually indistinguishable having different encodings, it is rotting our filenames, URLs, and strings.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: New Macs and bad characters

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What do we want Apple to offer in terms of new hardware, and the problems built deep into Unicode.

April 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Unicode spoofing: when an аррӏе isn’t an apple at all

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The word looks identical, but uses different Unicode characters. How can you tell the difference? There are important security implications, and more.

April 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to normalise strings, and a new command tool to help

How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.

April 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

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