From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 11:54:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC5316A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB5743F93 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:54:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (12-230-74-101.client.attbi.com[12.230.74.101]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003111619543201300g55she>; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:54:32 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAGJqPTG083295 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id hAGJqJDv083294; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20031115204057.H9349@znfgre.qbhto.arg> From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:52:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20031115204057.H9349@znfgre.qbhto.arg> (Doug Barton's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:42:25 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <6wad6wt7kc.d6w@mail.comcast.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Good basic article on unicode, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:54:34 -0000 Doug Barton writes: > For those (like me) who haven't had a lot of time to learn the fine > points of unicode, here is a good introductory article on it: > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Which has a bonus picture of the Seattle skyline taken from an atypical photo position North of "downtown". I suspect it was taken from one of the seaplanes that buzzed my recent residence just West of the University of Washington, before landing in Lake Union, which can been seen (a little) at the bottom of the picture. A suprising choice from a guy who apparently lives in New York City. Anyway, for more details on Unicode and the UTF-8 (which FreeBSD uses, IIRC) see "UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux" by Markus Kuhn at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html