Global by Design

The latest creation from Byte Level Research, available for purchase at bytelevel.com/eyechart. This unique take on the Snelling eye chart includes characters from more than 20 languages. It’s the perfect gift for an eye doctor — as well as the globally myopic.

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I’m happy to be not only attending but speaking at Localization World and Unicode Conference in October. Here are the details on my sessions: Localization World Seattle, WA October 6: International Search Summit October 7: The Next Ten Years of Web Globalization October 7: Making Your Website Truly Global — and No, We’re Not Talking About Language Unicode [...]

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It’s not easy having an American English keyboard when you frequently need to input characters like è or ä or ç. Or ¥. Or €. Maybe it’s because I switch between Mac and Windows so frequently. Or maybe I’m just too lazy to remember the keyboard shortcuts. Fortunately, I just discovered: CopyPasteCharacter.com. Give it a [...]

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The Kindle has gone international, sort of. That is, Amazon is launching a new Kindle outfitted with a radio chip that works in most of the world’s cellular markets (100+) — as opposed to the US-only Kindle, which operates only on Sprint’s network. Unfortunately, just because someone in, say, Russia will be able to download [...]

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I’m not exactly a power-Tweeter, so I can’t say I have the need for a tool that stretches Twitter’s 140-character limit. Still, I get a kick out of Maxitweet. To understand what it does, here’s an example. I entered the following text: 149 characters. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little [...]

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