André 小山 Schappo

The purpose of this post is to encourage all of you who are teaching Regular Expressions (RegExp) or are learning RegExp to think internatio...

Most human language scripts are written from Left to Right (L➡︎R). Arabic is written Right to Left (L⬅︎R). An email address written in the L...

Here is a method for typing Emoji by name but not by English name. This method is for writing Emoji by Chinese name. OSX provides a Pinyin ...

I have long been familiar with processing Unicode characters with RegExp (Regular Expressions). I was also aware that RegExp could be used t...

Sina Weibo 新浪微博 is a China microblogging service en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo . Nottingham now has a number organisations on Sina Weibo....

In  schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/php-variable-names.html  I explained how PHP variable names are determined at the byte level. JavaScript ...

There is an OS X extension lpdf , which is the Multilingual PDF of the title of this blog article. Letʼs look at System Information.app wi...

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...