Is there a name for the domino like box characters with 4 characters inside that display when you don't have support for a language script? [more inside]
posted by srboisvert on Sep 1, 2008 - 7 answers

Is the term “caption” or “closed caption” and the “CC in a TV” symbol commonly recognizable to non-U.S. people? [more inside]
posted by breaks the guidelines? on May 19, 2008 - 15 answers

How are people dealing with >16 bit Unicode code points? Specifically, in languages like Java, C# and C++, which assume 16 bit characters (I believe), how are you supporting GB 18030? I would suspect that the various languages' methods like substring(), charAt(), operator[], etc can't be safely used in China. If your wstring, say, contains a Chinese string, then .size() doesn't tell you how many characters are in it, right? On a related note, what interesting Chinese characters require more than >16 bits? I'm thinking about making a short presentation for my co-workers on this subject and I'd like to have some interesting examples. (Oh, and I'm going to run any examples by my Chinese colleagues first, so don't bother trying to make me say "penis" or something in front of my co-workers :-))
posted by bonecrusher on Apr 4, 2008 - 6 answers

How does the new gen ipod handle international characters in ID3 tags of an mp3 file? [more inside]
posted by the cydonian on Oct 19, 2006 - 5 answers

I18n and HTML: How do display images that have kanji filenames, in both IE (PC) and Safari (Mac). [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Aug 24, 2005 - 3 answers