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Character encoding nightmares

Marc Logeman are having a fit over charactersets. And I agree.
We have been struggeling with character encodings in our system, and since we didn’t have any legacy data etc. we could just go for Unicode all the way. It took us a while to figure out though, and I’m not convinced I won’t do any errors connected to it on my next project. There might be some performance and storage issues, but I don’t see any big reason we shouldn’t start using Unicode as the default. The problem is all the legacy data, but the OS wendors should really start shifting it all to Unicode. It’ll save the IT industry billions when not every single developer has to figure out those strange character errors they are getting. Marc Logemann seems to agree.

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SOA Advice

Some good sound down to earth SOA advice can be found here. For once, it’s even coupled to some concrete technical advice.

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Subversion plugin for Eclipse

I’m not running on subversion right now, but have been testing Subclipse earlier. It has it weaknesses and now there is another alternative, Subversive. I’ll be sure to check it out later.

Via java.no