Victoria Krb RetroGeek BlogMay 10
🎬 Ok, here we are: 🎺 First official release of 🎺 #EmojiGear 0.9b, likely the first 🥇 #UTF-8 #Unicode #Amiga #AmigaOS3 3.2 (soon 3.9)text editor 👀. This is also the first release for utf8rastport.library, an Amiga shared library 📖 that manages multiple fallback truetype fonts, metrics, and rendering on Amiga Intuition "RastPorts". Also first release for shared BOOPSI gadget class UniTextEditor.gadget, that is the active part of EmojiGear 🚀. @Amiga_News @amigaimpact
https://github.com/krabobmkd/EmojiGear/releases/tag/r09b
Note: This architecture potentially allows to display and edit actual modern text encoding and emojis in further IRC clients, mailers, mastodon clients, consoles, etc...
Release EmojiGear0.9b Amiga OS3 Unicode Text Editor + BOOPSI gadgets · krabobmkd/EmojiGear

EmojiGear is a UTF-8 Unicode text editor for AmigaOS 3.9 or 3.2.x (68020+). It renders TrueType/OpenType fonts via a built-in FreeType 2 engine and displays full-colour Emoji from CBDT/CBLC bitmap ...

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LightApr 29

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design-v9/lecture-understanding-the-html-boilerplate/what-is-an-html-boilerplate
https://badwebsite.club/bootcamps/spring-2026/ recommends "<meta charset="utf-8" />" as part of your boilerplate. But:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/document-metadata.html#specifying-the-documents-character-encoding
>The only acceptable character encoding declaration for the modern web is UTF-8.
>This must be identified by the character encoding label’s value being an ASCII case-insensitive match for the string "utf-8".
>Regardless of whether a character encoding declaration is present or not, the actual character encoding used to encode the document must be UTF-8. [ENCODING]

Lol. Why bother specifying it then?

#HTML #UTF-8

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Victoria Krb RetroGeek BlogApr 12
It is again a rainy day so i made an #Unicode #UTF-8 editor on #AmigaOS3... #Amiga and i can convert most used encodage, and i can print tons of funny #emoji with function keys. Thanks #FreeType lib also and linux ttf collection. There is a whole new font system and low level draw functions to make it work. Not perfect yet but already fabulous. last note: the post from 2weeks ago, I was just doing the rendering engine, this is now a text editor.
Victoria Krb RetroGeek BlogMar 29
It's another exciting Sunday to do some DIY projects at home on old computers because it's cold...
#Amiga #AmigaOS3 #FreeType #Emoji #UTF-8 #UTF8Now!
jnpnMar 15

compose key and more

https://lobste.rs/s/u3cc1e/compose_key_is_magic

#emacs #vim #linux #utf #languages

The Compose key is magic

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Terence EdenDec 30

🆕 blog! “A small collection of text-only websites”

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.

Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt

Obviously a webpage…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
⸻
#blogging #blogs #text #unicode #utf-8

Tenacity Audio EditorDec 28

Recently, we talked about #libid3tag and our intent to make a new release. So far, we have a preview of some changes that have already been made in the latest main:

- Mojibake fixes for #UTF-16 (no BOM) encoded fields.
- Some code cleanups, including warning fixes.
- Compatibility with #CMake > 4.0 (we now require CMake 3.10+)

Meanwhile, we are also working on #Doxygen documentation to better document the library too, so quite a few things are going on for libid3tag right now.

zolarisDec 1

Please #Microsoft, fix the #UTF-8 drive letter bug, I'd like to have 💩:\>

REF: https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z - ryanliptak.com

If you want €:\, you can have it, sort of

Show threadいしいNov 3, 2025

#メモ #文字コード #ANSI #JIS #Shift_JIS
#UTF-8 で書かれたテキストファイルをShift_JIS に変えたいのだけど、Notepad++でどのようにしたら良いのか分からなかった。「エンコード」の「文字セット」で「日本語 > Shift-JIS」を選ぶと日本語が文字化けしてしまう。
試しに「エンコード」の「文字セット」で「ANSI に変換」を選んだら文字化けせず、右下の文字コード表示も「ANSI」に変わった。もしかして…と検索して、今日、初めて知った。

#Windows のbatファイルをNotePad++で作成する際、最初はどうしてもデフォルトのUTF-8で保存してしまって、実行すると文字化けしてて、Shift_JIS で保存しなければいけなかったんだ…と直そうとしても方法が分からなくて、TeraPadの「文字/改行コード指定保存」を使っていたのだけど、NotePad++で「ANSI に変換」の後に保存すれば良かったのだな…と。

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Oct 24, 2025

“The Best – But Not Good – Way To Limit String Length”, Adam Pritchard (https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850398

#Programming #PLDI #Strings #Length #Unicode #Characters #Bytes #Graphemes #UTF #CodePoints #I18N #Internationalization

The best – but not good – way to limit string length | adam-p