André 小山 Schappo

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

By Browser Language I do not mean the Browser User Interface Language. I am referring to the Browser Preferred Language for displaying Pages...

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

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