Early word processors prevented many publishers from printing foreign language characters and words in English cookbooks, instead using transliteration. Valuing cuisine and culture is just one of the ...

Foreign language character support still proved problematic. The 128 values were insufficient to encompass the wide array of characters needed to support every foreign language—Japanese ...

Throw in some foreign language characters and the possibility of getting lost increases exponentially. That’s why East Japan Railway Co. in Tokyo (perhaps one of the world's most confusing ...

Twitter’s expansion to 280 characters is rolling out publicly today to all users in supported languages, including English. The company had first announced the controversial plan to move beyond ...

People across the world love Twitter. But the Twitter experience isn't quite the same in English, Spanish, Arabic, or Japanese. English-speaking Twitter users are used to being able to say a ...

Right now, Noto includes a wide breadth of language scripts from all around the world — specifically, 100 scripts with 100,000 characters. That includes over 600 written languages, says Jungshik ...

Here are 16 characters you can borrow from the writing systems of other languages to up your emoticon game. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The ...

For example, the DOS character set contains line drawing and foreign language characters. The ANSI character set uses them for foreign languages and math and publishing symbols (copyright ...

a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese ...

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