Unicode

“ Using 4 bytes for each character is wasteful, though, when most characters need only one or two, and there are programming problems with implementing 4-byte characters, so Unicode provides Transformation Formats (UTF) which allow the characters to be encoded using fewer bytes where possible. ”

“ This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, such as:
Eἰkων Βασιλιkή Œ, œ (“oe” ligature)
If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8) . ”

“ If there is particular meaningful information in the layout of the text that can't be expressed in ASCII, like special characters or complex tables or fonts, HTML may offer an open format alternative.
H.3. Can I submit a HTML version without a plain ASCII version?
You can submit it, but the Posting Team will then consider whether we should also make an ASCII, or perhaps ISO-8859 or Unicode version of it. We really do want our texts to be viewable by everybody, under every circumstances, and we do not want to start posting texts that are in any way inaccessible to anyone. ”

“ It is extremely likely you already have unicode support. This website tells your browser "display my body text in Helvetica Neue font if you have it installed, otherwise Helvetica if you have it installed, otherwise Arial if you have it installed, otherwise whatever your default sans-serif font is." Your browser follows those instructions and selects a font, and you can only hope that the selected font contains a glyph for every unicode character on the webpage. If your font doesn't contain a glyph for a unicode character, it displays that 'little squares' glyph instead. ”

“ On Windows, if you know the Unicode value for a character, you can type it by holding down the ALT key and typing the code on the numeric keypad (not the keyboard's top row) . Three-digit numbers require the leading zero. For example, é is (hold down ALT) , keypad 0 2 3 3. Latin characters are also on the various palettes available in the dropdown on the bar at the bottom of this page (article space) or at the top (page space) and can be added by a simple mouse-click. On Windows 8, activate the on-screen keyboard and use press-and-hold to produce a palette of related characters. ”

“ As the characters used to display the, that and thou are not in unicode, they were replaced with the words that they represent. The character for per is found in unicode, but is rare, so it was also replaced by the phrase it represents. ”

“ UPDATE: I decided instead to change my IE8's 'webpage font' selection in IE's settings to "Lucida Sans Unicode" and, lo-&-behold, even ℩ (℩) renders properly now - no {{Unicode}} template or class definition needed, PLUS "sans-serif" (the wiki-code, load.php defined, default font) resumes being the "fall-back" core font being rendered just like it always has for me. ”

“ The internet takes off. 1977: UNIMARC is set up as a common bibliographic format. 1984: Copyleft is a new license for computer software. 1990: The web takes off. 1991: Unicode is a universal double-byte character set. 1993: The Online Books Page is a list of free eBooks. 1993: The PDF format is launched by Adobe. ”

“ Gadelica (http://www.iol.ie/~sob/gadelica/) complies with selection C. But in general it may be necessary for WikiSource to ask Gaelic font designers to provide variations on their fonts in order to comply with a selection according to this second guideline. The reason that few Gaelic fonts comply with selections B or C is that almost all of them place an ampersand glyph in $0026, in the probable belief that this is required by adherence to Unicode — which requires an ampersand character, but not any particular glyph. ”

“ The turned comma in ‹MʻDonough› on page 119 is a glyph (Unicode character [‹ʻ› U+02BB; modifier let­ter turned com­ma] ) that is not well sup­port­ed in cur­rent brow­sers. It is retained in the simple text edition, but an image is substituted in the html, epub, and mobi editions. On page 122, the x with combining cedilla has been rendered as an image in all but the text edition. ”

“ Will you replace that system on current pages, and wouldn't it be easier and quicker to add the navigation directly to your file using a regex editor? The index you've created is incorrect; every article should be named "Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) /Article title", not "Article title", which is easily corrected. (I'll move the current pages to the parenthetical standard before you start.) Be careful with special characters; you cannot work from a normal text file, as that replaces Unicode with nonsense like "Ã2". ”

“ Why do we bother? Who writes sensible software any more? Pardon the sarcasm; but this seems to have been unnecessarily painful for such an apparently trivial issue. AuFCL (talk) 01:56, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Not quite. A "patch" for Unicode & IPA was added some time ago to common.js in order to get the {{Unicode}} template to at least do that under XP. And, again compare our outdated version to what WP uses - still not the latest & greatest if we go by them. ”

“ Hi. Not sure I follow. The intended uses is something like {{Text glypth|♈︎}} i.e. you would paste in the symbol (emojii or text either works) . If you try to enter the xml or unicode codes it will not work (although I guess support for that could be added through a different parameter) . While alt text would be great having that generated automatically would require a huge lookup table which risks making the template fairly heavy. Since it's text it wouldn't be a proper alt text though (only works for images as far as I know) , rather it would have to be displayed as a tooltip. ”

“ Non Unicode character On pretty much every page of Index:A dictionary of the Book of Mormon.pdf there is character made up of a c and a t with an arch joining the tops of the two characters. There is no equivalent Unicode character. What to do? John Carter (talk) 15:52, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
It doesn't render very well on my own browser, but perhaps have a look at {{ct}}: produces ct. AuFCL (talk) 21:21, 18 August 2014 (UTC) There's no ligature on my browser in that example, so clearly your mileage may vary. Mukkakukaku (talk) 00:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC) This is an orthographical thing. ”

“ Should e-texts in Unicode/UTF-8 contain these additional characters? Or should we expect that an e-text always contains only printed text symbols, and make the software produce the right HTML/CSS markup for this? Has this ever been discussed? --LA2 (talk) 15:09, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
There shows a difference in my browser. Messing with MediaWiki is unlikely, so we might want to make a note or template to enforce text style where necessary. I don't know that it matters that much ”

“ Some are completed, most are not, some are with scans, others are not, some seem to be redundant. Not all of them use Chinese characters and require Chinese understanding, but some do, for example Index:Ch'un Ts'ew Pt I.pdf Specific issues Character variants For some characters, there are many variants. Due to Han unification in Unicode, the exact display may not be the same for different users. If possible, use the correct character when they have not been unified. ”

“ Unicode provides for arbitrary combinations of base character with diacritic through combining characters.--Prosfilaes (talk) 18:47, 5 June 2016 (UTC) @Prosfilaes: Thanks! I really couldn't find the character anywhere. ”

“ Hrishikes (talk) 08:45, 21 April 2015 (UTC) Pardon slow response (I've had a couple of distractions.) First: Krenair still has not even confirmed this (JSON) format really is what he expects us to provide. Second: For some reason Nasir specified ZWJ before ZWNJ, whereas Arabic and Unicode imply the opposite ordering. ”

“ The old version had several bugs / suboptimal behaviour that bit us, and had no support for the porsonic circumflex and capital adscript iota font features. Xover (talk) 07:07, 14 January 2022 (UTC) Newer Gentium font should be available in ULS now. -- KartikMistry (talk) 11:07, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Really it is sufficient to note that there are two different Unicode codes, ◌ͅ U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI ͅ U+037A GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI and that the font is forcing the latter to act like the former, forcing combining action when it is not a combining character. ”

“ Hrishikes (talk) 02:01, 20 April 2015 (UTC) Oops. My error. Please ignore the reference to 60 (I was consulting out of date documentation: the Unicode 6.1.0 database lays out 60 glyphs grouped into the 'Bengali' block.) The WikiPedia page you quoted is based upon the Unicode 7.0 set and obviously includes quite a few more characters than the older specification. Apologies for misleading you. (A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing?) AuFCL (talk) 04:47, 20 April 2015 (UTC) Zwnj @AuFCL: As your talk page is defunct, I am using mine. ”

“ Can you try using the {{unicode}} template when you proofread it? Mukkakukaku (talk) 03:52, 22 August 2014 (UTC) I do all my proofreading on a Chromebook. Apparently it has a wider variety of glyphs in its fonts than Windows (I have the same problem on my Windows-based computer) . I wish that font selector worked because maybe we could force it to load the glyph from a font in one of those for the benefit of everybody.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 13:15, 22 August 2014 (UTC) You're welcome! — LlywelynII 13:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC) Errata What is the SOP for a.) notified errata, b.) ”

“ The immediate and major exception to this is when you are typing a text written in a language like French or German that requires accents.
There is a problem with using non-ASCII characters. They do not display consistently on all computers; in fact, they do not even display consistently on the same computer! On my computer, for example, what looks like an e-acute in this editor just shows as a black box in another editor, or even using a different font in the same editor. And this is by no means confined to some theoretical minority; we have to deal with it all the time when posting texts. ”

“ A pull from non-English-speaking computer users and a push from technology companies competing for global markets has made localization a fast growing area in software and hardware development. This development has not been as fast as it could have been. The first step was for ASCII to become Extended ASCII. This meant that computers could begin to start recognizing the accents and symbols used in variants of the English alphabet — mostly used by European languages. But only one language could be displayed on a page at a time. ”

“ If the student will give his careful attention to reasons, as well as to methods, he will be able to adjust these methods to alphabets of other lengths, as, for instance, the very common 25-letter alphabet met with in foreign texts. The first alphabet, of course, duplicates the plaintext alphabet regardless of what alphabet-length is being considered, and thus, whenever a Type III slide has been used, we are always in full possession of one of the cipher alphabets. ”

“ Because they do not use the Latin alphabet, we can't assume that those languages will display correctly on someone else's computer, where they might not even have a font installed that includes the symbols necessary to show that language. The {{Lang}} template, when told what language is being displayed, makes the selection of the best option for displaying the symbols used in that language, and includes a code that tells the browser which font to use for best results. ”

“ If, therefore, we can devise any means of expressing, in conjunction with each symbol, a certain number of repeats up to five; and if we can, for practical purposes, reduce our alphabet to twenty-two letters, we can at once reduce the biliteral cipher to three instead of five symbols.
The latter is easy enough, for certain letters are so infrequently used that they may well be grouped in twos. Take "X" and "Z" for instance. In modern printing in English where the letter "e" is employed seventy times, "x" is only used three times, and "z" twice. ”

“ One single letter gave it to me.”
“How was that?”
“If you will look at the telegram,” said Ben, spreading it out before me, “you will notice that in one instance only is a single letter seen standing by itself. That is the letter ‘b,’ which I concluded must stand for the article ‘a,’ for I know of no other, unless it is ‘I.’ Now, the letter ‘b’ is the second one in the alphabet, and stands next in order to ‘a.’ If this system is followed throughout the cipher, we have only to take, instead of the letters as written, the next in order as they occur in the alphabet. ”

“ In the following table, the `prefix' column is the international standard suffix for the appropriate power of ten; the `binary' column lists jargon abbreviations and words for the corresponding power of 2. The B-suffixed forms are commonly used for byte quantities; the words `meg' and `gig' are nouns that may (but do not always) pluralize with `s'.
prefix decimal binary pronunciation kilo- k K, KB, /kay/ mega- M M, MB, meg /meg/ giga- G G, GB, gig /gig/,/jig/
Confusingly, hackers often use K or M as though they were suffix or numeric multipliers rather than a prefix ”