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unicode
- Oct 6, 2026 Text Metrics and Line Breaking Across Two Font Stacks The same string occupies different space on two platforms because measurement, shaping, and fallback differ. Shared layout must pick one authority for metrics or accept divergence. mobile computing
- Jun 20, 2025 Unicode Word Boundary Rules in Query Tokenizers Why splitting a query on whitespace mis-tokenizes apostrophes, hyphens, and scripts that do not use spaces, and how the Unicode segmentation rules decide each case. information retrieval
- Apr 9, 2025 Byte Offsets, UTF-16 Code Units, and Editor Positions Why the same cursor sits at several different numbers depending on the encoding counted, how the position encoding for a language server is negotiated, and where the conversions lose alignment. developer tools