"On 1st October, Unicode 5.2 was released! The data files, code charts, and Unicode Standard Annexes for this version are final and are posted on the Unicode site. For Unicode 5.2, the core specification is no longer just a delta document applied to the book; instead, the entire core specification,with all textual changes integrated, will be available on the Unicode site.

"I noticed a discussion about Perl on Hacker News this morning. The linked article is about why the author likes Perl. As with all articles of this type, it attracted the usual "Ruby is better!!" comments.

"Emacs-22+ doesn't support Xft fonts, hence the look and feel of emacs on X-Windows is not that good. But development is going on to provide this feature in emacs. The emacs-unicode-2 branch for emacs has this feature, hopefully this will get integrated to emacs-23.

I followed the following steps to compile emacs unicode from CVS..."

The Miranda IM project has released version 0.9.0 of its open source instant messaging client, adding a number of new features, many of which focus on improving unicode support and on overall protocol improvements

Microsoft accused of harming Unicode, causing problems for the Indian population

First, like all non-standard Perl modules, you will need to install Yahoo::Search perl module from CPAN, go to cpan> console and install Yahoo::Search perl module

The Perl Foundation has migrated Perl 5 to the Git version control system, making it easier than ever for Perl's development team to continue to improve the language that powers many websites.

The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering issues accessing their sites, databases and mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has been being aggressively scanned by "20-30 bots every few seconds" in what they call "a dedicated denial of service attack."

The Wine development release 1.1.25 is now available.

What's new in this release:

* A ton of translation updates.
* Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.
* Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.
* Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.
* Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation.
* Various bug fixes.