This new version has performance improvements, and can now encode almost every character in normal English text to an obscure Unicode codepoint. Total obfuscation!
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Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.
The word looks identical, but uses different Unicode characters. How can you tell the difference? There are important security implications, and more.
Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.
You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?
You paste a link containing Unicode characters such as accents, and it doesn’t work as you expect. Here’s how to fix it.
This is how to deal with an email attachment or web download which is not correctly recognised, to make it accessible.
Not this year, but in the future we have resolved to holiday in Georgia – the country, not […]
In the first of a series, this explains how Macs work with Unicode, how to get the best out of that, and how to fix its problems.