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Western Brands on Weibo

The purpose of this article is to list some of the Western Companies/Brands that are using China's Sina Wēibó 新浪微博. The text in the square brackets is the Sina Wēibó 新浪微博 name. This article is a continuation of schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/companies-on-sina.html 7 For All Mankind [@7ForAllMankind] weibo.com/7forallmankind ☆ Abercrombie & Fitch [@Abercrombie] weibo.com/abercrombieny ☆ Accenture [@埃森哲中国] weibo.com/accenture ☆ Accor Hotels [@雅高酒店AccorHotels] weibo.com/accorchina ☆ Air Liquide [@液空中国] weibo.com/airliquidechina ☆ AKG [@雅登-AKG中国] weibo.com/akgchina ☆ AkzoNobel [@阿克苏诺贝尔中国] weibo.com/akzonobelinchina ☆ Alberta Ferretti [@AlbertaFerretti] weibo.com/albertaferretti ☆ ALDO [@ALDO1972] weibo.com/n/ALDO1972 ☆ Alexander McQueen [@Alexander-McQueen] weibo.com/alexandermcqueen ☆ Allen Edmonds [@AllenEdmonds中国] weibo.com/allenedmondschina ☆ Allianz Insurance [@安联保险-Allianz] weibo.com/allianzone ☆ Alpenliebe [@微有爱] weibo.com/alpenliebekindness ☆ American Express [...

Language Characteristics

In this article I list some of the characteristics of natural languages and scripts as they are manifested and used in modern day IT. With languages there are always exceptions and so there will be some exceptions to these characteristics. I will not be delving into linguistic technicalities such as the distinction between mora and syllable or the distinction between logogram and ideogram. I will take a more broad brush approach. Arabic Arabic is written in the Arabic script Written from right to left The space character (U+0020 SPACE) is used as a separator between words and sentences The sentence terminator full stop is the Unicode character U+002E FULL STOP Unicase ie no uppercase and lowercase letter forms A Keyboard Mapping is sufficient in order to write Arabic The Arabic script is inherently cursive and hence is presented/displayed in it's cursive form. Letters change shape according to their position within a word. These different shapes are named Initial, Medial, Final and...