Carlo Mancini

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Carlo Mancini

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The Unicode PowerShell module

After authoring last month scripting games puzzle, which involved some scripting around the Unicode standard, I decided to have some fun and write a PowerShell module which interacts directly with the online Unicode Database (UCD) to retrieve the main properties of characters. Using this module you will be able to retrieve the following information for a single char or for every char in a given string: Glyph name General category Unicode script Unicode block Unicode version (or age) Decimal value Hex value

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The JAPE challenge

I have wanted to write my very own obfuscated e-mail signature for a long time but kept myself from doing it. At the time I thought of all these lines of obfuscated code that people wrote during competitions such as the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) or the Obfuscated Perl Contest as beyond interest. Then I started competing in the Scripting Games, and some tasks involved writing Powershell oneliners that required mastering the use of the pipeline as a tool to refine what each cmdlet passed to another.