André 小山 Schappo

For years I thought PHP variable names could only be constructed from ASCII characters. Actually, maybe I had not really thought about it bu...

My chinese adopted name is 小山 which consists of two chinese characters. Sometime ago I was informed that there is a single chinese character...

There is a regularly updated ICANN csv file which summarises key New gTLD information in 6 fields. It is available at  newgtlds.icann.org/ne...

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...