Is there an Outlook setting to tell it to substitute a glyph from an alternate font if the current display font doesn't have a glyph for a particular character? [more inside]
posted by iconjack on Nov 17, 2009 - 0 answers

I'm trying to get extensions to work with the chrome beta browser. My first candidate is AdBlock and I looked here. [more inside]
posted by Obscure Reference on Sep 3, 2009 - 9 answers

There are a couple fixed-width Unicode Arabic fonts out there. The ones I've seen are pretty hard on the eyes, though, especially at small sizes. Any suggestions for a really readable one? [more inside]
posted by nebulawindphone on Mar 21, 2009 - 5 answers

Is there a dingbats font that uses Pokemon as characters or can this be done with Unicode? [more inside]
posted by nímwunnan on Jan 31, 2009 - 3 answers

Roman IPA fonts and the non-roman characters who love them. [more inside]
posted by nebulawindphone on Dec 18, 2008 - 2 answers

Is there a name for the domino like box characters with 4 characters inside that display when you don't have support for a language script? [more inside]
posted by srboisvert on Sep 1, 2008 - 7 answers

How serious are intersecting coordinates in a font? [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Aug 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Conditional search engine selection in Firefox search box based on contents (in particular, character set) of the search query? [more inside]
posted by qvtqht on Aug 7, 2008 - 5 answers

Firefox refuses to show the heart symbol (♥) correctly. It shows up as a straight, vertical line instead. Is there anything I can do to fix it? [more inside]
posted by elisabethjw on May 13, 2008 - 17 answers

How are people dealing with >16 bit Unicode code points? Specifically, in languages like Java, C# and C++, which assume 16 bit characters (I believe), how are you supporting GB 18030? I would suspect that the various languages' methods like substring(), charAt(), operator[], etc can't be safely used in China. If your wstring, say, contains a Chinese string, then .size() doesn't tell you how many characters are in it, right? On a related note, what interesting Chinese characters require more than >16 bits? I'm thinking about making a short presentation for my co-workers on this subject and I'd like to have some interesting examples. (Oh, and I'm going to run any examples by my Chinese colleagues first, so don't bother trying to make me say "penis" or something in front of my co-workers :-))
posted by bonecrusher on Apr 4, 2008 - 6 answers

Is using a Latin-alphabet captcha accessible across languages/character sets? [more inside]
posted by soma lkzx on Feb 8, 2008 - 6 answers

I (well, my boss) am/is inputting Chinese-language sub-station Alpha subtitles into VirtualDub for DVD's, and what comes out are, surprise surprise, piles of unicode. The citizens of the PRC are not known to be fluent in unicode, so what could be going wrong and how do I, his designated software monkey, fix it? [more inside]
posted by saysthis on Dec 16, 2007 - 13 answers

How do I make MD5, Java and Unicode play nicely together? [more inside]
posted by idb on Dec 10, 2007 - 8 answers

I have a US cell phone (LG Muziq, Sprint is the provider). I would REALLY like to be able to read Japanese web pages on it, but whenever I surf to a page with Japanese text it just shows up as garbage. I've installed Opera Mini on my phone, but that didn't help, even though the demo on their website does show Japanese characters. Is there any way to get this to work? I don't need to be able to type in Japanese, or send Japanese text messages. I just want to be able to read Japanese web pages. If I can't do this on the phone directly, then maybe there's another website I could visit that would convert the Japanese text to images?
posted by Vorteks on Nov 29, 2007 - 4 answers

I'm looking for sources of weather data (current conditions, forecasts) that are in text formats so that I can turn them into a Twitter weather bot. What I have in mind is either existing ASCII products (METAR, AVN MOS) or derivatives of image products that (e.g. a compact text encoding of a radar map through some kind of image analysis). Ideas welcomed. [more inside]
posted by edwardvielmetti on Oct 30, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I upgrade unicode? [more inside]
posted by quercus on Aug 22, 2007 - 9 answers

Fonts Filter: In MS Word 2002, I'm trying to type a "combining diaresis" (umlaut applied to the preceding character). Sometimes it actually works; sometimes i get a square box. I have no idea why it works when it does, or why it doesnt work when it doesnt. [more inside]
posted by jak68 on May 23, 2007 - 9 answers

Unicode Filter: Converting an Office 98 document to Unicode has caused formatting problems. [more inside]
posted by AArtaud on Feb 22, 2007 - 4 answers

how to make a "registered" (r-in-circle) symbol to go in a text file to appear in Flash [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Oct 30, 2006 - 10 answers

How does the new gen ipod handle international characters in ID3 tags of an mp3 file? [more inside]
posted by the cydonian on Oct 19, 2006 - 5 answers

Can I use Unicode characters in PostScript strings? [more inside]
posted by iconjack on Aug 31, 2006 - 3 answers

How can I make backups of a MySQL database (via mysqldump) and preserve Unicode characters (such as em dashes)? [more inside]
posted by cmyers on Aug 28, 2006 - 8 answers

Help me figure out these weird Spanish, Danish, and Portugese characters in an address given to me via the Internet. I don't think what I see is what is meant. [more inside]
posted by chef_boyardee on May 30, 2006 - 9 answers

Probably easy question about PHP and unicode (UTF-8) and RegEx. I'm trying to modify a php webcalendar (VTcalendar) to allow Japanese text in calendar postings. I've found all the variables to get the UTF-8 headers, and so japanese text manually inserted into pages appears fine. But, there's an input validation thingy I don't know how to modify. (short snippet inside) [more inside]
posted by planetkyoto on Mar 29, 2006 - 4 answers

Font recommendation to solve a MS Word --> QuarkXPress issue? [more inside]
posted by omair on Feb 25, 2006 - 4 answers

Unicode Filter - How do I go about combining diacritics in Unicode with pre-existing letters? I'm baffled. Win XP, using Word. I'm clueless, and I'm working with a deader than the proverbial doornail language (Hint - Middle Eastern Iranian language family).
posted by AArtaud on Feb 13, 2006 - 5 answers

(Free) Unicode-compatible Hebrew modern handwriting fonts [more inside]
posted by Gnatcho on Jan 11, 2006 - 3 answers

I'm looking for the best Windows flashcard program, particularly for vocabulary drilling. It needs to be Unicode compatible. I'm in Nepal at the dead end of the Internet, so I can't download a variety of programs and try them out.
posted by AArtaud on Oct 25, 2005 - 2 answers

OS X/setting up FTP server/Unicode file name issues [more inside]
posted by alidarbac on Oct 6, 2005 - 1 answer

ASCII/Unicode conversions/importing into MT problems...[mi] [more inside]
posted by alidarbac on Jun 29, 2004 - 2 answers

Why does Firefox insist on loading pages with Unicode character coding, when I prefer Western character coding? The former turns high-ASCII characters like § into question marks; the latter displays these normally. Does this happen to anyone else, and can I fix it?
posted by PrinceValium on Jun 27, 2004 - 14 answers

[MT question] My blog is configured to publish in Unicode. I frequently use Chinese characters in my posts. The posts are published just fine, but when I go to edit a post, what comes up aren't the Chinese characters, but rather the Unicode coding for the characters. Is there some way to configure MT so that when I edit an older post, I can see the characters instead of the Unicode coding?

I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens with Japanese/Korean/Arabic/Summerian.
posted by alidarbac on Apr 11, 2004 - 3 answers

Accented characters in HTML. [more inside]
posted by kickingtheground on Apr 9, 2004 - 13 answers