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Month: July 2009

Type Russian without the keyboard

July 28, 2009 by John Yunker

There are shortcuts on most English keyboards for entering characters such as á and é. But I can never seem to remember what those shortcuts are. Fortunately, there is TypeIt, …

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Categories Languages, Unicode

Note to Google Books: Please rotate

July 16, 2009 by John Yunker

I just noticed that the book I wrote several years ago Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies is now up on Google Books. I appears though that Google still has a …

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Categories Google, Web Globalization

Just how global is your browser?

July 14, 2009 by John Yunker

Firefox 3.5 is now out and available in more than 70 languages. Yes, 70 languages. Naturally, I was curious to learn how many languages the other browsers currently support. Here …

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Categories Google, Languages, Microsoft, Translation

Bing cuts the clicks

July 12, 2009 by John Yunker

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt. Since Bing launched I’ve been thinking a lot about search engines and how I use them. I’ve …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

.EU to offer Greek and Cyrillic support

July 4, 2009 by John Yunker

The European Commission has announced that it will begin supporting domain registration in Greek and Cyrillic characters. This will allow for support of all 23 official EU languages. The EC …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names

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