A list of Unicode tips, tricks and war stories. http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/toc.html en-US Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:45:00 EST ejp10@psu.edu © 2006 Elizabeth J. Pyatt (ejp10@psu.edu) I am finally transferring to a real blog application! All new entries will be posted at http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/blogs/gotunicode, and the 2006 entries will eventually be transferred as well (but with 2007 dates). The archives will be place for the next few months though. The newsfeed URL will be http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/blogs/gotunicode/atom.xml http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/blogs/gotunicode Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:45:00 EST This article by Bill Poser of the Language Log explains some of the mechanics of Simiplified vs. Traditional Chinese characters and the rationale for some of the objections raised. He also confirms that Simplified characters may be more phonetically based on Mandarin forms, and could be harder for non Mandarin speakers to memorize. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003997.html Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:30:00 EST I thought I would close the year by reporting on how to do some common statistical notations. Unlike other mathematical symbols, stat symbols like "X-Bar" and "p hat", are actually made with a letter followed by a "combining diacritic." http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/statsym.html Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:30:00 EST Edward Lucas, one of the Eastern European journalists at the the Economist, has a fun article (The language of Šekspīrs) pointing out that even people comfortable with umlauts, tildes and cedilles may tremble at the sight of the Czech hacheck and Polish ogonek. http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-weekly-economistcom-column-first.html Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:30:00 EST Information on creating European language quote marks in Microsoft Word and on the Web http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/euroquotes.html Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:15:00 EST Information on multiple Japanese scripts and why there are Unicode critics and Japan and elsewhere in East Asia http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/japanese.html Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:45:00 EDT Why most fonts for South Asian scripts like Devanagari and Tamil don't work quite right on the Mac http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/index.html#atsui Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:45:00 EDT