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Sorting Country Names in their Native Language

I used to think that sorting things was easy. Collation is a really difficult problem, especially once you start considering different script (Latin, Chinese, German, etc.) and numeral systems (Western Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, etc.) in the same list, not to mention locale-specific sorting irregularities like German Phonebook sorts. The problem of sorting country names is …

May 10, 2010 – 11:44 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Happy IDN Day!

Today is the day that internationalized domain names (IDNs) go live on the internet. As someone really interested in globalization, this is a huge development: this is the first time non-latin characters can be used as domain names in the public internet. Arabic nations especially are loving this, and I’m sure Hebrew and Chinese language …

May 6, 2010 – 09:11 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , | Comments (0)