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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

Speaking in Tongues: Corporate America needs to get religious about languages

June 18, 2018 by John Yunker

I was happy to have an essay published in the recent issue of Multilingual. In the essay I write: While Wikipedia, Google and Facebook are among the leaders in languages …

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Categories Books, Business globalization, Culture, Global By Design, Global Marketing, Languages, Retail globalization, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Internationalization resources complements of the W3C

May 17, 2018 by John Yunker

Successful website globalization is all about asking questions. A key point I stress in Think Outside the Country is that nobody knows everything. Nobody can know everything. And you should …

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Categories Domain names, Languages, Translation, Web Globalization

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