Just Robert

Category: My Notepad

  • Classical Chinese Punctuation

    I was pipped by 孙子兵法, wondering how the ancient scholars notated their text in the past. So I turned to Quora for answers: How did ancient Chinese scholars denote questions in text? I am reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (book) on Wikisource at the moment in Chinese. And in the first chapter, I…

  • 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‹ ê¸°.  So what went wrong? To be…

  • 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, (…