Vietnam deleted the rule that made its ID numbers decodable, and nobody stopped decoding them
Since 1 July 2024 no Vietnamese instrument says the 12-digit citizen ID has any internal structure. The decree defining...
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What passports do when you have only one name
The near-universal advice is to write FNU in the empty given-name box. That is not an ICAO rule. The standard says a nam...
What a country will let you name a child
A name generator hands you something that sounds right; a registrar decides whether it can be recorded. Japan now regist...
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Your Database Has One Collation for Southeast Asia
MySQL 8 ships 89 collations for utf8mb4 and exactly one is for a Southeast Asian language. Five of them sorted the same...
What a Character Limit Does to Khmer
Truncation looks like the simplest thing a program does, until the same twenty-character limit hands an English reader n...
Why Some Languages Come Out as Empty Boxes
A page can be perfectly translated and still arrive as hollow rectangles, because rendering needs a font that contains t...
Why Your Name Does Not Fit in the Box
A form field capped at forty characters gives an English speaker forty and a Khmer speaker twenty-one, because the brows...
What the Same Sentence Costs in Eleven Languages
Write a prompt in Thai and it costs more than the same prompt in English — not because the model charges you differently...
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