Net copes with key character test
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Tests are carried out to see how the net's addressing system  copes with international character sets such as Chinese and Arabic.
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Khoo writes &quot;A sample program hit the Internet on Wednesday, showing by example how malicious coders could compromise Windows computers by using a flaw in the handling of a widespread graphics format by Microsoft&#39;s software.
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Internationalizing a website can bring all sorts of challenges, as Markus Wolff found out when working on a recent project:   When you're building international websites, there's always something new to learn. Especially if one of the languages your website is available in uses a character set different from anything you're used to. For jimdo.com, the greatest challenge as of yet is the chinese version.   His focus isn't so much on the content of the page but on one small character that caused him headaches - the comma. Unfortunately, it seems that Unicode has its own commas that don't quite adhere to the "normal" rules to make them easy to work with (and, in his case, split with a regular expression). The fix to the situation was simple, though - adding a "u" modifier after the expression made it Unicode-aware and split the information correctly.
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Ed Finkler has pointed out a handy resource for those trying to cope with using the UTF-8 support included in several of PHP's functions - this page on the Web Application Component Toolkit wiki.   This page is intended as a reference for functionality PHP provides which can either help with handling UTF-8 or should be regarded as a risk when used in conjunction with UTF-8 encoded strings. Further information can be found on the Internationalization (I18N) and Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues pages.   It talks about the "dangerous" functionality PHP has (issues that the language has in current functions) when using things like the PCRE extension, the string extension, the array methods, handling variables, the XML extensions (DOM and SAX), image manipulation, and URL parsing functionality.
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Close on the heels of the SimpleTest 1.0RC1 release, is a new article titled "Coding a Login Box Shouldn't Hurt". Web sites can be fiddly to test, especially when it includes functionality like cookie handling and form filling. While manual testing is error prone and tedious, using a Web testing tool can automate the process, making development fast, accurate, and even fun. In this new article , Marcus Baker, helps you solve this tricky problem of authenticating users, by using test driven development.
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com staff. Danish security firm Secunia has reported a &quot;moderately critical&quot; window injection vulnerability in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, Safari and Konqueror.
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By ANICK JESDANUN  NEW YORK - The Internet's key oversight agency sought Friday to identify policy disputes that might arise from the introduction of addresses that end in non-Latin scripts, marking one more step toward making the Internet truly global.
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Consistency, clarity and support for non-Latin characters are considered by Internet governance group.
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This release fixes a number of minor bugs and inconsistencies. There are also several minor improvements throughout, and the provider libraries have been updated to recent versions. Gentle.NET is an RDBMS independent object persistence framework written in C# for .NET and Mono. It features automatic SQL generation and object construction, an SQL factory for creating custom queries, and much more. It has excellent performance and reasonably complete documentation.     Download the latest release from the project home page at: http://sf.net/projects/gopf   or visit the project community site for documentation and other related material at:  http://www.mertner.com/confluence
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Stefan Esser points out a new patch today - CORE GRASP - from the Core Security Technologies group that provides taint support surrounding the mysql_query function.   Their implementation adds a tainted or not flag for every byte so that it is possible on invocation of mysql_query() to determine any kind of injection.   Unfortunately, Stefan also mentions two big issues it might have from the get-go: the overhead for the memory needed can slow things down and an incorrect parsing in their query handler could lead to injection attacks.
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Ascii Generator dotNET (ascgen2) is an application to convert images into high quality ASCII art, i.e. text that accurately represents the original image. The first and only program of its kind to support conversion into variable width fonts, and output adjustments in real-time.   Download it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133786  Changes in this version: Changed rtf output to be ASCII instead of Unicode/UTF to make them work in other programs Added automatic version checking against the sourceforge website Added "check for new versions?" bool to the variables and settings file Moved the version number into a structure instead of one variable Moved most effects applied to the output into classes Moved apply convolution matrix function into the ConvolutionMatrix structure Moved ascii conversion related files into a new folder Changed solution to compile without warnings in Visual C# Express Added "Copy Ramp to Clipboard" to the edit menu Moved ramp menu items into a sub-menu Moved font related menu items into a sub-menu Batch Conversion/Settings: - Restored missing resource string for Auto button/right click menu - Changed auto button right-click menu to a menustrip - Fixed problem with disabled Ok button when the regional settings decimal symbol isn't "." - Added setting backcolor of an invalid textbox to red - Fixed tab order - Fixed problems with invalid character sizes being allowed
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Netcraft, a UK-based security firm, has released a toolbar to help protect users against phishing attacks. It displays the attributes of Web sites the user visits, helping to determine whether sites are likely to be legitimate.
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Spend time online and odds are you'll have to type a username and password to check your e-mail, access your bank account or read a newspaper story.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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After a screenshot on MSDN appeared to show an IE8 beta passing an accepted Web standards test, some came to the only conclusion they could: that the test had to be broken.