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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life.
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Daily Archives: March 29, 2007
Unicode and Japanese Names
Just investigating how well modern Japanese personal and place names are represented in commonly-available character sets, such as JIS X 0208 and Unicode. The short story is that Unicode on a recent version of Windows or Mac OS X should … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Tech
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