Awesome Falsehood
Section: Internationalization · A curated list of delightful Unicode tidbits, packages and resources.
FreshScore 93
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Unicode
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A great resource for learning how unicode works and the issues it can cause.
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Awesome Testing
Section: Must Read · A great resource for learning how unicode works and the issues it can cause.
FreshScore 86
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awesome-falsehood
A funny and educational list of why nothing in Software Development is ever easy. Think you can store a marriage in a DB?
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Naughty Strings
🆓 A huge corpus of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. A must have set of practical edge-cases to test your software against.
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Minimum to Know About Unicode and Character Sets
A good introduction to unicode, its historical context and origins, followed by an overview of its inner working.
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Falsehoods about text
Practical examples illustrating Unicode normalization, ligatures, surrogate pairs, character widths, and grapheme cluster pitfalls in substring operations.
Internationalis(z)ing Code
A video about things you need to keep in mind when internationalizing your code.
Ode to a shipping label
Character encoding is hard, more so when each broken layer of data input adds its own spice.
Localization Failure: Temperature is Hard
You cannot localize temperature differences as-is.
Falsehoods about Language
Translating a software from English is not as straightforward as it seems to be.