André 小山 Schappo

Орёл и Решка is a russian language ukrainian TV travel programme. Season 9 episode 14 was all about Nottingham which in russian is  Ноттинге...

There has been much buzz about the invented word duang. It consists of both a Chinese character (well actually two) and a romanized form. Th...

India now has all of it's seven IDN ccTLDs delegated to the Internet's Domain Name Root Zone. These seven ccTLDs encompass an impre...

The New gTLDs initiative has been ongoing for some time now so I thought it time I listed some Website Domain Names. I will only be listing ...

There are quite a number of Australian Universities on Sina Weibo 新浪微博. Below I list those I have found. I only include those Australian Uni...

Regular Expressions are not just about ASCII. They are (or should be) about Unicode, with ASCII being a very small subset of Unicode. The v...

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 ...