Archive for category: Unicode

Tom Scocca, stopped clock    (2012.04.19)

Tom Scocca got it half right in lambasting Microsoft Word. Now we need to get him set up on BBEdit

Borked Unicode: Tips for journalists on writing clean copy    (2011.11.15)

Months in the making, today I’m releasing Borked Unicode, a pop-up blog that aims to teach hacks (i.e., journalists) the minimum they need to know about Unicode. The goal is to make it possible for hacks to write clean copy.

Unichar    (2011.07.10)

Rate Unicode characters in a Hot or Not?–style interface.

Don’t let Swedes typeset your book cover    (2011.07.01)

Because »they’ll use the wrong quotation marks«

Reverse Lion    (2011.06.09)

OS X 10.7 will work in Arabic. This may not go well

Michael Kaplan, cheap-shot artist    (2011.05.04)

Michael Kaplan of (significantly) Microsoft takes time out of his busy day to bash Apple in an otherwise-unrelated post

‘Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?’    (2011.02.09)

Come out to my Ignite Toronto presentation, 2011.02.10 at the Drake. (Keyword: Mongolian cheesemonger). (Updated)

Possibly not the best way to discuss ‘plain text’    (2010.11.10)

David Pogue’s mishmash of ASCII and em dashes

Character rot    (2008.08.10)

Somebody tell Russell Smith how to Save As… in MS Word