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1. 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
2. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

   tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
3. Digital Video Introduction: A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding). 2019-12-19

   tags: codec, ffpmeg, image, video

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4. Double colon in LDIF 2019-06-19

   tags: base64, encoding, network/ldap, text, text/ascii

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5. libqrencode - a fast and compact library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol 2019-01-07

   tags: command-line, image, programming/c, qrcode, terminal

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   • https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode
6. command line - How do I split a flac with a cue? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange 2018-10-18

   tags: audio, codec/flac, encoder, linux, vorbis, wave

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   • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUE_Splitting
   • http://shnutils.freeshell.org/
   • https://ivanbayan.com/index.php/2013/02/06/split-and-encode-flaccue-to-mp3ogg-in-one-run/
   • https://www.justindhoffman.com/article/2010/04/split-ape-images-ogg-files-and-add-tags-cue
7. The Go Programming Language Specification - Struct field tags 2018-07-14

   tags: data, programming/go, programming/json, programming/xml, tag

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   Packages using struct field tags:

   • https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/
   • https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/xml/
   • https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/
   • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Well-known-struct-tags

   Articles:

   • https://blog.golang.org/json-and-go
   • https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/9#section1
   • https://sosedoff.com/2016/07/16/golang-struct-tags.html
   • https://gobyexample.com/json

   Threads:

   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10858787/what-are-the-uses-for-tags-in-go
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23057405/what-is-the-use-of-tag-in-golang-struct
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23507033/golang-reflection-get-tag-from-struct-field
8. 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
9. 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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10. Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode 2017-04-10

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

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11. UTF-8 Everywhere 2017-02-03

    tags: character, encoding, text/unicode

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12. 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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13. Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified 2014-08-24

    tags: encoding, programming/python, text/ascii, text/unicode, utf8

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14. A multithreaded FLAC to MP3/OGG/FLAC batch converter (written in python) 2014-07-29

    tags: audio, codec/flac, codec/mp3, codec/ogg, encoder, programming/python, programming/script, vorbis

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