André 小山 Schappo

Standard Mandarin Chinese uses four tones marks for pronunciation: ¯ ´ ˇ ` . Normally, one only encounters these tone marks with Chinese wr...

Yesterday, I wrote some code especially for the Chinese New Year 狗年. Look at the date in the last text box at jsfiddle.net/coas/zvubxato . ...

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

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

This morning I gave a Computer Science Internationalization Workshop to school students. Twelve students attended my workshop which lasted ...

I sometimes encounter Unicode characters that have direction and sometimes that direction is not the direction I want. Letʼs take the chara...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Unicode has sequences of codepoints which reduce to single human perceived characters. In Unicode parlance these human perceived characters...