Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

23Nov/070




The Blog Revisited – 9

This is the last part on "The Blog Revisited" before going ahead with regular posting. All posts that appeared June onwards (number was comparatively low) are covered here.

16Nov/070




The Blog Revisited – 7

Databases allow datatypes that can store unicode data, then why was it that while MS-Access successfully stored Unicode data whereas MS-SQL server failed when I first tried. See how to handle Unicode data in Storing Unicode Data in Databases.

14Jun/070




Wordpress.com Vs Blogger.com

Today I finished preliminary customization of my Custom CSS that powers the Looks of this blog to implement it on a blog hosted with Blogger. And the result is http://hindi.jalaj.net/

13Apr/070




International Domain Names


This post uses hindi unicode characters which would not be visible unless you have a font containing Hindi unicode glyphs. If not, you can download it from BBC Hindi site.


With the growth of Internet, user expectations also grew. First it featured plain text on familier blue/black background, later included images, then animations, sounds, movies... When it comes to text language we first had just English, then had other languages which could be viewed only after downloading relevent fonts, then came dynamic fonts and lastly the Unicode that standardized the language characters.