Yesterday we started to post the 100 Chinese characters most used in nowadays Hànyǔ as Unicode Codepoint of the Day. This series will last until middle of April (obviously). From time to time we will add informative blog posts here to put the characters in context. If you learn Chinese, now is a…
Yes, we’re late for this, but the Unicode Codepoints of the Day will be themed for Advent. On each of the first 24 days of December we will reveal a new codepoint, that is somehow related to the date. We also publish them here one after one for your convenience:
As of today, the support of @font-face is quite unknown on mobile and tablet. Well, we happen to use font icons on the BBC Responsive News website and we have had many problems when trying to detect which browser can be served
@font-facerules and deal with it correctly. We decided to…
With the latest changes we finished a large part of the translation infrastructure of Codepoints.net. There is also a German translation online right now. It suffers from several edge cases, like wrong grammatical cases and not translated Wikipedia articles and glossary terms. But the basic…
We have embedded George Douros’ great Aegyptus font as webfont. From now on you can view Egyptian Hieroglyphs without installing any additional font. See it in action here: U+13000 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A001
(Please keep in mind, that you might to wait for some seconds on the first Hieroglyphs page, until the web font has downloaded.)
Finally it’s time to push Codepoints.net into existence! It’s my try to tackle the visualization of Unicode. Codepoints.net is by far not the first to do it. Notable other sites, that have an other focus however, are for example Decode Unicode or Graphemica.
We want to make finding…
Did you know, that you can search codepoints directly from within your browser? In IE and Firefox you can add the Codepoints.net search as simply as clicking an “Add Search” button. The technology is called OpenSearch, and it allows you to place the codepoint search in a row with Google, eBay…
When I was first learning about UNIX, and learning to use Linux, the most immediately powerful tool that I found was the shell’s pipe operator, ‘|’. Using the commandline (because at that point, linux GUI’s were not so well developed, and the few distros that tried to allow strictly graphical…
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