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The palm tree that led to Palmyra
Palmyrene is an alphabet that was used to write Aramaic in 300–100 BCE, and I learnt about it while looking for a palm tree emoji.
TIL: When fixing mojibake, use
ftfy.fix_and_explain()to understand how it’s fixing a piece of textTIL: How to create flag emojis for countries in Python
TIL: Use the regex library to get Unicode property escapes in Python
TIL: Use Unicode property escapes to detect emoji in JavaScript
Operations on strings don’t always commute
Is uppercasing then reversing a string the same as reversing and then uppercasing? Of course not.
Notes on reading a UTF-8 encoded CSV in Python
Some notes on trying to do this in a way that supports both Python 2 and 3, and the frustration of doing so.
Another example of why strings are terrible
Pop quiz: if I lowercase a string, does it still have the same length as the original string?