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 ...

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 ...

Language app Duolingo is unveiling a new cast of characters that it hopes will help users better learn new languages, even during the toughest lessons. The characters will act as guides within the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new character limit applies to languages where cramming is an issue, such as English. The change won't apply to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean languages because the density of those languages ...