Simon Willison’s Weblog

HTML Entity Character Lookup. Look up HTML entities by characters that are a similar shape.

# 3rd July 2007, 3:41 pm / html, tool, unicode

Django unicode-branch: testers wanted. Malcolm’s outstanding work on the unicode branch appears to be nearing completion.

# 24th May 2007, 11:46 pm / django, unicode

Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages (via) Great for unicode testing.

# 27th April 2007, 11:14 am / language, malcolm-tredinnick, unicode

Javascript character set screw-ups (via) Some browsers treat JavaScript files as having the same content-type as the page from which they are linked. This could cause problems with UTF-8 encoded JSON; the workaround is serving up ASCII with unicode escape sequences.

# 21st December 2006, 3:20 pm / javascript, json, unicode

Unicode character information. Useful lookup tool.

# 30th November 2006, 11:55 am / unicode