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Month: January 2022

The Year of the Tiger: Websites celebrate Lunar New Year

January 31, 2022 by John Yunker

If you were to visit the US home page of BMW you’d see the obligatory photograph of the latest models: But if you were to visit the China home page …

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Categories Amazon, Apple, BMW, China, Chinese New Year, Holidays, Web Globalization

This is the golden age for multilingual (multi-script) fonts

January 17, 2022 by John Yunker

In the early days of website globalization, there was no such thing as a “global font.” That’s because there was no such thing as a font that supported the world’s …

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Categories Fonts, Languages, Translation, Unicode, Vendors, Web fonts, Web Globalization

Bookshop.org: The anti-Amazon is going global

January 9, 2022 by John Yunker

As an author and small publisher, I’m excited to see the rapid growth — and globalization — of the online bookstore Bookshop.org. Bookshop.org positions itself as the anti-Amazon, by working …

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Categories Amazon, Books, Flags, Global By Design, Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Retail globalization, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Browsing the Netflix “browse by language” feature

January 3, 2022 by John Yunker

I think I spend more time browsing Netflix for something to watch than actually watching it. Which is why I was intrigued to see a new Browse by Language link …

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Categories Languages, Machine Translation, Netflix, Software Localization, Transcreation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

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