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Unicode Is Really Getting Fashionable

Written by John Yunker Posted on by John Yunker

John is president of Byte Level Research and author of The Web Globalization Report Card. He is based in San Diego, California.

Michael Kaplan called my attention the latest Unicode fashion accessory:

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For those who don’t get it, that funny little question-mark character is what Mac users see when their computers don’t have the right font to display a given character (or if the Web browser gets a bit confused about what font to display). Just because Unicode allows you to display the world’s major languages on a Web page does not guarantee that your Web users have the right fonts on their end.

Windows users see blank boxes — and yes there’s a shirt for Windows users as well:

UnicodeWindows.jpg

The shirts are available from Cafe Press. I wonder if I can get one in black…

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