Code Flux

One of my recent projects has been to port a Clotho application to Japanese. We chose this opportunity to convert the code base fully to Unicode. The other obvious choice would have been to port to Shift-JIS, a popular encoding for Japanese characters. However, we decided that this latter choice was not […]

One of my current projects is to port an application to Japanese. The first port is always the hardest1, so I’ve learned a few things in the process. I’m going to accumulate a few of my successes in this blog category. The first and most significant is that the way encodings work […]