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UTF-8 Woes
In my FYP project, we have to deal with UTF-8 encoded data. Database was set to utf-8 charset by the client’s database developer. My localhost server was set to utf-8 as well. But the display would come out grabbled text. So text like, 동방신기 will appear like ë™ë°©ì‹ 기. So what went wrong? To be…
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The Evolving Emoticons
Apparently the Japanese netizens are not satisfied with their current diverse set of emoticons. They are evolving and with more complexity. Short of saving the new emoticons as templates, I wonder how they use the evolved emoticons in their daily conversations. This, (◉◞౪◟◉), has characters from geometric shapes unicode set and Tegulu script. Whereas, (…
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Tech on the Net: Cooliris & RecordTV
Cooliris Cooliris, until 26th July 2012, was a service that allows you to run a gallery of photos and images right from your browser. Cooliris has now repurposed the 3D wall technology that it has been offering to the desktop users to the mobile domain. They no longer offer the functionality through the browsers, except…