Quotes and Accents
Jessica’s handy guide to writing the right quotes and accents on a Mac keyboard.
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Shady Characters
The secret life of punctuation.
Mojibakeru kanji-animal transformers ::: Pink Tentacle
Kanji characters that transform into the animal they represent.
Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes
A handy page for looking up HTML entities.
?C ?V Character
A very useful tool for getting character entities (use the "as HTML" option) in one click.
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Mysql database migration and special characters | Orthogonal Thought
This article is a life-saver for me. I'm constantly having trouble with special characters when I'm backing up databases for local copies of my sites.
as days pass by » Blog Archive » Internationalisation
Stuart posts a really handy string for testing internationalisation: Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
Suck it up, ya fixed width losers: your favourite escape clause has just been deflated. "Twenty college-age students read news articles displayed in 35, 55, 75, or 95 characters per line (cpl) from a computer monitor. Results showed that passages formatte