André 小山 Schappo

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

Saturday, 10 March 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Validating People Names

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When coding, it is essential to consider and account for edge cases. Whilst coding Internationalised Programming Challenge 17 jsfiddle.net/...
Saturday, 3 March 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Bidirectional Text

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For this blog article I have taken the last two text boxes from my internationalised programming challenge 9 at jsfiddle.net/coas/qa8190kn ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Mandarin Chinese Tones

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Standard Mandarin Chinese uses four tones marks for pronunciation: ¯ ´ ˇ ` . Normally, one only encounters these tone marks with Chinese wr...
Friday, 16 February 2018

Computer Science Internationalization - Time Zones

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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 . ...
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...
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