4 posts tagged ‘Unicode’
Key Repeat in Sequoia
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Brett Terpstra: But one thing I found frustrating was that setting key repeat delay and key repeat speed in System Settings was having no effect. Keys that had diacritics still just popped up the special character popover, and keys without didn’t do anything at all when held. […] Run the following in Terminal: defaults write […]
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs
David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with design principles specific to C++. Why then does the industry need another book, one targeted not only […]
SpamSieve 3.0.1
SpamSieve 3.0.1 fixes almost all of the known issues with version 3.0. It also improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. So everything that the Mail extension does now has a fallback implementation using AppleScript. Other interesting bugs were: Core Data uniqueness constraint resolution can fail and […]
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
Nikita Prokopov (Hacker News): The problem is, you don’t want to operate on code points. A code point is not a unit of writing; one code point is not always a single character. What you should be iterating on is called “extended grapheme clusters”, or graphemes for short.[…]Even in the widest encoding, UTF-32, 👨🏭 will […]