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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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Press Release: StarHub to launch its enhanced mobile broadband network and smartphone price plans on 19 September 2012
Media Release For immediate release StarHub to launch its enhanced mobile broadband network and smartphone price plans on 19 September 2012 Singapore, 11 September 2012 – StarHub today announced the enhancement of its high-speed mobile broadband network with Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Dual Cell High-Speed Packet Access Plus (DC-HSPA+), which will offer its customers improved peak downlink…
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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, (…