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Posted in internationalisation on Feb 27th, 2008
So what does happen if you’re an Arabic speaker and you naturally expect to be able to write a search query from right to left? You’re sort of stuck and have to work with writing from left to right. Not any more however if you’re a Google user. If you’re using a supported local interface [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Jan 31st, 2008
So what is character coding and why should you bother? Well the folk over at the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internationalization group can answer all that in a nutshell, or short article: Character coding for beginners. Whether you’re a content author, user, or anyone who is unsure about what a character encoding is then [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Oct 12th, 2007
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the people who manage domain names, yesterday announced that as of Monday 15th internet domain names would go international and allow top-level domains to be written in non Latin scripts. What this means is that rather than websites being forced to use Roman characters such as .com, [...]