André 小山 Schappo

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

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Japanese Domain Name

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I believe はじめよう.みんな to be the world's first live fully Japanese Domain Name! It is written with the Japanese Hiragana script. みんな is on...
Monday, 13 January 2014

Apple Color Emoji

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In a previous post schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/localized-font-names.html I examined how well Browsers deal with language localized font ...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Localized Font Names

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Fonts can have more than one name ie names localized to more then one language. In this post I am going to examine the use of fonts that h...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Unicode and Hangul

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One of the Unicode blocks is Hangul Syllables , codepoints U+AC00➜U+D7AF. Each character in this block has a formal Unicode name written in ...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

Twitter Character Count

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【Update: Do not know when it happened but Twitter no longer differentiates between BMP and non BMP characters WRT character count. All char...
Saturday, 6 October 2012

Weibo Character Count

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Same as all the other microblog systems I have encountered, Sina Wēibó 新浪微博 has a 140 character limit for a user post. This is not strictly ...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

My Adopted Chinese Name

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In China there is a very famous Canadian by the name of Mark Rowswell dashan.com . One of the reasons he is so famous in China is that his C...
Monday, 27 February 2012

Western Brands on Weibo

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The purpose of this article is to list some of the Western Companies/Brands that are using China's Sina Wēibó 新浪微博. The text in the squa...
Monday, 20 February 2012

Language Characteristics

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In this article I list some of the characteristics of natural languages and scripts as they are manifested and used in modern day IT. With ...
Saturday, 31 December 2011

Browser Language

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By Browser Language I do not mean the Browser User Interface Language. I am referring to the Browser Preferred Language for displaying Pages...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Microblog Space (character) Saving

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Take the following example two lines of text: Fruit: apples, pears! Veg: cabbage, onions. Cars? Ford; Mini Fruit:apples,pears!Veg:cabbage...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

ZARA Website

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Interesting! And the sort of thing I would do. ZARA 's website adapts the Social Media links displayed according to the Region. ZARA cat...
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