André 小山 Schappo

My Interests include: International Computing, IDNs, Apple Macs, i18n, Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Transliterations of Loughborough

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I have just noticed that Google Maps transliterates Loughborough into Chinese as 拉夫伯勒 http://ta.gd/拉夫伯勒地图 。 The transliteration I have been ...
Sunday, 25 April 2010

LA & NYC

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I am totally impressed by: Los Angeles ロサンゼルス.jp New York City ニューヨークシティ.jp Not only do these sites have Japanese IDNs but also the pathn...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Alphabet

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I have found several Japanese Companies that have Latin Alphabet acronyms. These acronyms are usually also transliterated into Katakana 片仮名....
Saturday, 10 April 2010

Kashi

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Kashi is a recently opened Japanese Yakiniko restaurant in Leicester レスター. I received a leaflet about Kashi this week. The only Kanji on the...
Saturday, 27 March 2010

Acronym IDNs

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Latin Script acronyms are common place. Much more interesting are acronyms in non latin scripts. Even more interesting is when non latin scr...
Friday, 26 March 2010

Languages

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 There is a family set of developed Japanese IDNs that are intended for Japanese people who are learning languages. They are all hosted on t...
Saturday, 20 March 2010

Samsung 삼성

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 Samsung has a very interesting IDN. It is an acronym for Samsung. http://ㅅㅅ.com/ In the western world, we are familiar with acronyms for c...
Monday, 8 March 2010

City Maps

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 Below I list some Google City Maps that use the Region Language. If you are using an English setup then it is most likely that links you cr...

Howl's Moving Castle

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 The award winning Japanese animation Howl's Moving Castle ハウルの動く城 is being shown at the Cope Auditorium, Loughborough ラフバラ University S...
Thursday, 25 February 2010

Korean IDNs

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시화교회백화점.com 대리운전서비스.com 아이지키미.com 에어로빅복.kr 나이트.kr 시와시인.kr 교육넷.net 유명갈비.kr 소아청소년.kr 우리주차장.com 서울통상.kr 수용.com 임용고시.kr 영등포문화원.kr ...
Friday, 19 February 2010

Loughborough Jmap

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 This week I discovered that Google Maps have done an amazing job on transliterating English Place and Street names into Japanese Katakana. ...
Sunday, 7 February 2010

Japanese IDNs

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いっぱい情報.jp おとく.com ブログ稼ぐ.jp 虎王戦.jp 黒ぶた.jp 幻視球.net ビッグバンド.jp マルユー.com 純道.com えべチュン.jp 野菜ジュース.jp プラネタリウム.jp チョーヤ.jp 総統の夢.jp 山鬼.co...
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