utf-8
Well, I’ve even persuaded Internet Explorer to work properly, so let’s see if utf-8 lives up to its promise. If you can’t read the bit below, that means that you probably don’t have Japanese fonts installed on your computer. Actually, I should say if you can’t see Japanese characters...maybe you can’t read Japanese! The bit below that, in French, should have accented characters. If those don’t appear correctly as well, then your browser probably doesn’t support utf-8, and you might consider upgrading if you can.

このHPは、utf-8を使っている。それは、世界中、すべての文字が使えるわけなんだ。これがちゃんとできたら、同じページに、いろんな文字を書くことができる。

Voici un petit essai pour voir s’il est possible d’employer les chiffres accentées. Est-ce que ça marche ?

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I’ve found out the time of my demonstration/presentation tomorrow (for my computer vision assignment). 11am...not too bad. I think I can probably make it out of bed by then! I just hope that my presentation is the kind of thing they are looking for. I mean, we didn’t exactly get a lot of guidance. It should go OK, because my program (a) works, (b) is optimized and (c) I’ve prepared a presentation. The only problem is that I don’t have any objective results. There are metrics for image quality like MOS (mean opinion score) but I’m not sure I can use that to get any meaningful information.

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