You don’t need HTML!
View source on this bit of tongue-in-cheek fun from Terence.
Link tags: unicode
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HTML Symbols, Entities, Characters and Codes
For all your copying and pasting needs:
A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes
The World’s Writing Systems
What a lovely timeline of civilisation. This site makes for a nice companion piece to that database of dimensioned drawings—they’re both delightful to explore.
᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜ - YouTube
When is a space not a space?
Tom talks about ogham stones and unicode.
It’s Dangerous to Go Stallone. Take Glyphhanger | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
You’ll need to be comfortable with using the command line, but this is a very useful font subsetting tool from those clever folks at Filament Group.
Phishing with Unicode Domains - Xudong Zheng
Domains registered with punycode names (and then given TLS certificates) are worryingly indistinguishable from their ASCII counterparts.
Can you spot the difference between the URLs https://adactio.com and https://аdаctіо.com?
Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
Unify – Unicode support on browsers and devices
Some excellent research for web developers: find out which unicode characters have the widest support—release useful for choosing icons.
❍ IcoMoon
This is a great free service for generating small subsetted icon fonts. Launch the app and have a play around — you can choose from the icons provided or you can import your own SVG shapes.
Nice touch: you can get the resulting font (mapped to your choice of unicode characters) base-64 encoded for your stylesheet.
as days pass by » Blog Archive » Internationalisation
Stuart posts a really handy string for testing internationalisation: Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn