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1. emoji-cheat-sheet - A markdown version emoji cheat sheet 2025-04-13

   tags: programming/html, programming/markdown, text/unicode, text/unicode/emoji

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2. Go - Truncate strings with special characters without corrupting data 2025-01-05

   tags: programming/go, text/unicode

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   • Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
   • x/exp/utf8string - Index strings by rune rather than by byte
   • How can I elliptically truncate text in golang?
   • Why can the Go string type contain invalid UTF-8 data?
3. Hex Display: A modern xxd alternative 2024-12-30

   tags: command-line, hexadecimal, programming/rust, text/unicode

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4. Text normalization in Go 2024-11-28

   tags: ietf/rfc, programming/go, text/ascii, text/unicode

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   Standard library:

   • unicode - Data and functions to test some properties of Unicode code points

   Extra libraries:

   • golang.org/x/text - Supplementary Go packages for text processing, many involving Unicode
   • golang.org/x/text/runes - Tansforms for UTF-8 encoded text
   • golang.org/x/text/transform - Reader and writer wrappers that transform the bytes passing through
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm - Types and functions for normalizing Unicode strings
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode - Building blocks for other packages in golang.org/x/text

   Third-party libraries:

   • anyascii/go - Converts Unicode characters to their best ASCII representation

   RFCs:

   • RFC 8264 - PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
   • RFC 8265 - PRECIS for Usernames and Passwords
   • RFC 8266 - PRECIS for Nicknames

   Resources:

   • Unicode - General Category Property
   • Diacritic
   • Unicode Equivalence
   • Unicode Equivalence - Normal Forms
   • When to use Unicode Normalization Forms NFC and NFD?
   • Remove diacritics using Go
5. Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music 2023-11-15

   tags: music, text, text/unicode

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   • MusicBrainz Database / Schema
6. Programming with Unicode (The Unicode Book) 2022-03-17

   tags: programming/c, programming/python, text, text/unicode

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7. Remove Unicode characters from textfiles - sed , other Bash/shell methods 2022-03-04

   tags: linux, shell, text/unicode

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8. Can I search for a Unicode combining character in Vim? 2022-03-04

   tags: editor/vim, text/unicode

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9. string - What's the difference between a character, a code point, a glyph and a grapheme? - Stack Overflow 2021-01-03

   tags: language, text, text/unicode

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10. keyboard - Where can I find the full list of Compose combinations for my locale? - Ask Ubuntu 2020-06-29

    tags: character, compose-key, keyboard, linux, text/unicode

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    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/787113/compose-dead-greek-with-compose-key
11. Searching for Emoji Characters / Unicode - Elasticsearch - Discuss the Elastic Stack 2018-03-15

    tags: observability/elastic, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, text/unicode

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    • Unicode text segmentation - https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
    • Unicode emoji - https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Searching
    • https://jolicode.com/blog/search-for-emoji-with-elasticsearch
12. File format | Vim 2017-09-26

    tags: character, editor/vim, encoding, text/unicode

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    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23389/how-can-i-set-vims-default-encoding-to-utf-8#23414
    • http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/File-encoding-amp-line-ending-in-Vim-td1169828.html
13. Terminal Escape Code Zen 2017-09-21

    tags: color, linux, terminal, text/unicode, urxvt

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14. Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf? - Stack Overflow 2017-09-05

    tags: database, database/mysql, text/unicode

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15. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) – Joel on Software 2017-04-10

    tags: character, encoding, text/unicode

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16. Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode 2017-04-10

    tags: character, encoding, programming/python, text/unicode

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17. asciinema - Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way 2017-02-17

    tags: command-line, record, session, stream, terminal, text/unicode

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    • https://asciinema.org/docs/how-it-works
    • https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
    • https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player
18. UTF-8 Everywhere 2017-02-03

    tags: character, encoding, text/unicode

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19. 6.5. unicodedata — Unicode Database — Python 3.5.2 documentation 2016-09-08

    tags: encoding, locale, programming/python, string, text/unicode

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20. rxvt-unicode won't Fully Maximize in KDE. / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums 2016-01-07

    tags: border, desktop/kde, linux, maximize, programming/shell, rxvt, terminal, text/unicode, urxvt

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    TL;DR - Right Click on window title bar > More Actions > Special Applications Settings > Size and Position > Obey geometry restrictions > Choose Force and leave check mark to No.

    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KdeMaximized https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92115