A typing-test word is five keystrokes and real English words run longer
Typing tests count a word as any five keystrokes, the space included. Measured over two nineteenth-century novels and tw...
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IBAN check digits catch every wrong digit and nearly every letter typo
An IBAN's check digits caught every wrong digit we typed into SWIFT's 89 example IBANs, and missed a few errors that swa...
A Korean learner's dictionary needs only 1,465 of Hangul's syllables
Unicode encodes 11,172 Hangul syllables by one formula, and South Korea's 1987 character standard kept 2,350 of them. Ho...
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The same Shift_JIS bytes read as 髙 or 騠, depending on the table
Browsers and Microsoft's CP932 table read Shift_JIS the same way, but other converters do not. We decoded all 7,724 two-...
Neither Chinese punctuation standard requires full-width marks
Mainland China's punctuation standard and Taiwan's handbook measure marks in character cells and never require full-widt...
Phone number lengths across ASEAN's eleven members, from the regulators' own plans
How many digits follow the country code in each of ASEAN's eleven members, from the regulators' own numbering plans: Sin...
The most common Chinese typos are homophones
Most Chinese typos are the right sound and the wrong character, picked from a pinyin keyboard's row of candidates. Some...
What CSS ease and ease-in-out actually do
The default CSS easing, ease, is 80% of the way there at half the time, and it does not start from rest. We evaluated th...
What a seal script converter can and cannot do
Seal script got its own Unicode block on 16 September 2026 — 11,328 characters — and a converter will still leave 的, th...
Converting one passage between mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong punctuation
Taiwan centres its full stops and the mainland puts them bottom left, yet it is the same character. Here is one passage...
Why common Cantonese characters like 嘅 and 咗 could not be typed in Big5
Eleven of the most-used written Cantonese characters, including 嘅, 咗 and 喺, could not be typed in Big5, the tradition...
Why a Chinese character that works in GBK can break in Big5
GB2312, GBK and Big5 write the same Chinese character with different bytes, and none of them can write every character....
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