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Japanese Domain Name

I believe はじめよう.みんな to be the world's first live fully Japanese Domain Name! It is written with the Japanese Hiragana script. みんな is one of Google's new gTLDs icannwiki.com/index.php/.みんな . Google translates はじめよう to "Let's start with" and みんな to "Everyone" translate.google.co.uk/#ja/en/はじめよう%0Aみんな One can use the Ideographic Full Stop rather than the ASCII Full Stop as the separator in Internationalized Domain Names ie はじめよう。みんな . This then gives us the rather cool translation to English "Let's start with. Everyone" translate.google.co.uk/#ja/en/はじめよう。みんな
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Apple Color Emoji

In a previous post schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/localized-font-names.html I examined how well Browsers deal with language localized font names. My exploration, this time, concerns the number of localized names a font has. I decided upon a font that stands out from the crowd. A font that many will be aware of, namely, Apple Color Emoji. OSX Mavericks 10.9.1 has 33 system language localizations and I found that the Apple Color Emoji font has 16 unique language localizations, as in the table below. English Apple Color Emoji Arabic لون Chinese (Simplified) Apple 彩色表情符号 Chinese (Traditional) Apple 彩色表情符號 Danish Apple farve-emoji Dutch Apple Kleur-Emoji Finnish Applen väri-emoji French Apple Emoji couleur German Apple Farben-Emoji Italian Colore Emoji Apple Japanese Apple カラー絵文字 Korean Apple 컬러 이모티콘 Norwegian Apple farge-emoji Portuguese Apple Emoji em Cores Russian Цветные эмодзи Apple Swedish Apple färg-emoji
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Localized Font Names

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Fonts can have more than one name ie names localized to more then one language. In this post I am going to examine the use of fonts that have two language localizations for their names, English and Chinese. The specific fonts I am using are some Chinese fonts newly included in OSX Mavericks: English Name Chinese Name HanziPen SC 翩翩体-简 Wawati SC 娃娃体-简 Xingkai SC 行楷-简 Yuppy SC 雅痞-简 My aim is to determine whether or not Browsers can select and use fonts by their, in this case, Chinese names. Here is the relevant html code: <p style="font-family:'HanziPen SC'"> 1a 拉夫堡，莱斯特，伦敦。</p> <p style="font-family:'翩翩体-简'"> 1b 拉夫堡，莱斯特，伦敦。</p><hr /> <p style="font-family:'Wawati SC'"> 2a 拉夫堡，莱斯特，伦敦。</p> <p style="font-family:'娃娃体-简'"> 2b 拉夫堡，莱斯特，伦敦。</p><hr /> <p style="font-family:'Xingkai SC'"> 3a 拉夫堡，莱斯特，伦敦。</p> <p style="font-family:...
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