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> Unicode: a Primer
> The Word of Merge
> Zygodact Launches
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Happy Holidays!
Wishing you all a fantastic Holiday Season from everyone at RR

Happy Holidays

Its hard to believe its been a whole year, again. It seems like only last week we were talking about launching Revolution 2.9, and preparing for RunRevLive Vegas, and now 2009 is fast approaching, we have 3.0, and are starting to prepare for the next conference.

As ever, its been a year packed with incident and excitement. We completed two major releases and moved offices, as well as holding our most successful conference to date.

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Unicode: a Primer

If you have ever tried to create stacks in a language other than English and the more common West European languages you have run into the problem of how to produce all the character glyphs that the language requires. Of course, this is a problem in any programming environment, not just in Revolution. Fortunately, Unicode is there to help us out.

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The Word of Merge

Previously, we touched on the topic of using the 'merge' function with raw RTF text files to create Word documents. In this article, we will go into more detail and show how you can use this technique to integrate with Microsoft Office, using Word as a reporting mechanism.

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Zygodact Launches

Please welcome to RevSelect the latest great addition to smooth your path when creating new applications. Now you don't need to reinvent the wheel when adding a registration system to your application.

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