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Has lunch become a luxury item? That’s the question many are asking in light of rising prices for food in general — and dining out in particular. And it’s something borne out by a new survey from ...

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new okhttp3.OkHttpClient(); java.lang.NullPointerException at android.icu.text.Normalizer2.normalize(Normalizer2.java:221) at java.text.Normalizer.normalize ...

This article was written by Safa for the series “Digitized Divides” and originally published on tacticaltech.org. An edited version is republished by Global Voices under a partnership agreement.

As I mentioned in #6608 (comment), we probably want to include some other algorithms as well, such as the four Unicode normalization forms. The java.text.Normalizer class provides access to this ...