André 小山 Schappo

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

Sunday, 21 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Exercises

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My specialism is Computer Science internationalisation (i18n) and I encourage students to think globally when programming. Recently I gave ...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Kazakhstan

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I discovered, just yesterday, that Қазақстан Kazakhstan is to change itʼs writing system from the Cyrillic script to the Latin script. One ...
Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Internationalization Workshop

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This morning I gave a Computer Science Internationalization Workshop to school students. Twelve students attended my workshop which lasted ...
Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Rotating Unicode Characters

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I sometimes encounter Unicode characters that have direction and sometimes that direction is not the direction I want. Letʼs take the chara...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Email Address Internationalization (EAI)

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An internationalised email address is of the form Unicode@IDN where Unicode is a name consisting of Unicode characters (excluding the ASCII...
Friday, 12 January 2018

Copy and Paste — A Tip

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My standard practice for mouse based copy & paste is: move the mouse to the text I want to copy mouse down and drag to select the ta...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - A Programming Challenge

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I recently issued a simple (or is it?) programming challenge to 140+ university students. I will be giving this same challenge to school st...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Presentation of Links

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All of us encounter links in documents, webpages and email. They are readily identified as they are usually coloured blue if not visited a...
Friday, 5 January 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Composed v Decomposed Text

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My given name André, has the diacritic, acute accent over the letter e. In Unicode there are two ways of constructing and storing é. Eith...
Monday, 18 December 2017

Computer Science Internationalization - Grapheme Clusters

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Unicode has sequences of codepoints which reduce to single human perceived characters. In Unicode parlance these human perceived characters...
Thursday, 14 December 2017

Computer Science Internationalization - Googleʼs Japanese TLDs

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Google currently has two Japanese TLDs (Top Level Domains): グーグル meaning Google and みんな meaning everyone. グーグル is currently dormant but みんな ...
Thursday, 30 November 2017

Computer Science Internationalization - Korean IDNs

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Below are a set of Korean IDNs (Internationalised Domain Names). I have listed them because they are good examples of well integrated IDNs. ...
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André 小山 Schappo
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