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Unicode

Forming unusual characters using Unicode and typography

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How can you create a new accented or other character which doesn’t appear in Unicode? It depends on whether you want it in text, or PDF.

August 2, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mints 1.5 reports recent boots and solves normalization

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Now lists the time of the start of all boots in the last 24 hours, and helps you with Unicode normalization problems.

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Big Sur’s broken clock

When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.

April 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur has changed how macOS formats time

How Apple made changes to Foundation routines which format dates and times which can break their formatting when in 12-hour clock mode.

April 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

unorml, a command tool to normalise strings, now a Universal binary

Normalises strings to any of the four standard Unicode normalisation forms C, D, KC or KD, supplied with source.

September 4, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

When you shouldn’t use unconventional Unicode text

What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?

September 1, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Dystextia version 1.7 is now a Universal App

Universal App to obfuscate text using unusual Unicode code points which look the same but are different.

August 19, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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