Unicode Normalization
Jun. 8th, 2004 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickencharlint.pl (http://www.w3.org/International/charlint/) is my new favorite piece of software.
"Friends don't let friends use (or write) Perl."
Yet sometimes, Perl is the best damn language in the entire freaking world.
Charlint.pl is my new god.
Charlint.pl solved the unsolvable.
Charlint.pl is going to make one Classicist very happy.
Charlint.pl will save the world! ;-)
Basically, people can now search our polytonic Greek texts using either the Unicode Form C characters (composed) or the simple 'accents stripped' more modern Greek characters.
And also, people who are using Internet Explorer will now see at least some Greek characters instead of boxes or question marks (god damn that stupid browser, it can't recognize a ton of Unicode characters).
This (which a good browser should render correctly, as shown above):
Δόμνα σὺν τῷ κύρῳ Ἑρμογένῃ
Becomes this:
Δομνα συν τω κυρω Ερμογενη
After charlint.pl has gotten its little hands on the code.
"Friends don't let friends use (or write) Perl."
Yet sometimes, Perl is the best damn language in the entire freaking world.
Charlint.pl is my new god.
Charlint.pl solved the unsolvable.
Charlint.pl is going to make one Classicist very happy.
Charlint.pl will save the world! ;-)
Basically, people can now search our polytonic Greek texts using either the Unicode Form C characters (composed) or the simple 'accents stripped' more modern Greek characters.
And also, people who are using Internet Explorer will now see at least some Greek characters instead of boxes or question marks (god damn that stupid browser, it can't recognize a ton of Unicode characters).
This (which a good browser should render correctly, as shown above):
Δόμνα σὺν τῷ κύρῳ Ἑρμογένῃ
Becomes this:
Δομνα συν τω κυρω Ερμογενη
After charlint.pl has gotten its little hands on the code.
