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Why doesn't Disney+ support accents in profile names?

By @edent · ascii disney Star Wars unicode utf-8 · 2 comments · 250 words · read ~358 times.

Because I'm genetically pre-disposed to watch every piece of Star Wars content ever created, I signed up for a free trial of Disney's newest streaming service. As part of onboarding, it asked me to create a profile name. This is typically done so that multi-user households can have separate profiles and preferences. Mum doesn't have […]

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Subsetting (Chinese) Fonts

By @edent · chinese font fonts python unicode utf-8 · 1 comment · 450 words · read ~4,672 times.

There are loads of really delightful Simplified and Traditional Chinese True Type Fonts available on the web. There's only one issue - the file sizes are really large. In many cases, too large to effectively use as a web-font. For example, this calligraphy style font is 3.4MB. The beautiful Paper Cut Font weighs in at […]

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A UTF-8 Aware substr_replace (for use in App.net)

By @edent · app.net Open Source php utf-8 · 200 words · read ~1,209 times.

So, I stayed up bashing my head against a brick wall all last night! PHP's string functions aren't (yet) UTF-8 aware. This is a replacement for subtr_replace which should work on UTF-8 Strings: function utf8_substr_replace($original, $replacement, $position, $length) { $startString = mb_substr($original, 0, $position, "UTF-8"); $endString = mb_substr($original, $position + $length, mb_strlen($original), "UTF-8"); $out = […]

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