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Russia & Ukraine: A tale of two languages – one rising and one falling

March 19, 2022 by John Yunker

For companies with global aspirations, Russian has long been considered a “must support” language. These days, that is no longer the case. But even before Putin decided to invade Ukraine, the Russian language had been slipping, ever so slightly, in …

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Categories Languages, Russia, Transcreation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Russia mandates locally made apps on mobile devices

April 2, 2021 by John Yunker

What was for many years a threat has now become a reality — a Russian law requiring mobile phone manufacturers to ship with preinstalled Russian-made apps (or allow them to be easily installed). It appears that Apple updated its onboarding …

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Categories Apple, iPhone, Mobile, Russia, Web Globalization

Yet another reason to avoid using flags on your global gateway

July 14, 2018 by John Yunker

As readers of this blog well know, I often refer to China and Taiwan when making the case for avoiding the use of flags on a global gateway. There are many others reasons, of course, but geopolitical issues have become …

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Categories Books, China, Flags, Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Kosovo, Web Globalization

Apple opens online store for Russia (and a call for improving the global gateway)

August 2, 2013 by John Yunker

Not exactly breaking news, but Apple Store is now live in Russia. I love the art they used for the launch: The global gateway that Apple uses for its online stores is a subset of the gateway it uses for …

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Categories Apple, Russia

Russia’s Internet growth is just getting started

March 31, 2013January 2, 2012 by John Yunker

I checked domain registration stats from Russia’s registry and here are the high-level numbers: If you combine IDNs and ccTLDs, Russia becomes the third-ranked country in terms of country code registrations, behind Germany and the UK. But what caught my eye is …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Russia

From Russia, with IDNs

November 22, 2011 by John Yunker

A little more than a year ago, Russia opened up registration for its top-level IDN: рф. Since then, more than 900,000 domains have been registered, making this the most successful IDN by far. I’ve always been quick to stress that …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Russia

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, an online editor that gives you the ability to input …

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Categories Languages, Unicode

Is Facebook “translation worthy” or just plain cheap?

January 14, 2008 by John Yunker

I read at Design Across Cultures that Facebook is planning to use “crowdsourcing” to allow its users to create translated content. Crowdsourcing is a hot new buzzword that is best illustrated by Wikipedia — you take a lot of motivated …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Google, Translation, Web Globalization, Wikipedia

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