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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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September 11, 2005

Unicode Is Really Getting Fashionable

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Posted by John Yunker

Michael Kaplan called my attention the latest Unicode fashion accessory:

unicode_shirt.jpg

For those who don't get it, that funny little question-mark character is what Mac users see when their computers don't have the right font to display a given character (or if the Web browser gets a bit confused about what font to display). Just because Unicode allows you to display the world's major languages on a Web page does not guarantee that your Web users have the right fonts on their end.

Windows users see blank boxes -- and yes there's a shirt for Windows users as well:

UnicodeWindows.jpg

The shirts are available from Cafe Press. I wonder if I can get one in black...

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