André 小山 Schappo

China's new idn ccTLDs 中国 and 中國 are now live. These ccTLDs are in addition to the ascii cn ccTLD. Here some examples of the now fully i...

British Airways make clever and creative use of language tags and country codes in their web addresses. The last part of their web address i...

The last time I blogged about Google Maps it was about transliterations into Japanese. Since then, Google can also transliterate English nam...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Latin Script acronyms are common place. Much more interesting are acronyms in non latin scripts. Even more interesting is when non latin scr...

　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...

 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...

　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...

　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...