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Chinese Culture 10 min 花 has seven strokes, and eight, and ten Count it on the mainland and you get seven. Taiwan's education ministry says eight. A 五格 name reading says t... EV Eva Chin 2 Sep Cybersecurity 7 min The lookalike domain that is blocked on .com and shown on .ru The famous all-Cyrillic apple.com impersonation was patched in 2017 and the matter filed as closed. Both major... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Sep Chinese Culture 6 min Most 火星文 converters are running the same copied file Feed the same characters to several Martian-text converters and most agree exactly. That looks like a standard... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep Chinese Culture 6 min Why a converter turns a toast into an obscenity 干杯 converts to 乾杯 correctly. Insert one character and 干了一杯 comes back 幹了一杯, which reads as an obsc... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep Chinese Culture 9 min Most advice on writing Chinese dates quotes a standard that was replaced in 2011 The rules for numbers and dates in Chinese publications were revised in 2011. A great deal of guidance, includ... EV Eva Chin 1 Sep Chinese Culture 5 min What happens to Chinese punctuation when text runs vertically Turning Chinese sideways does not turn its punctuation sideways. Quotation marks become different characters e... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 5 min The Chinese characters a bank computer cannot store A rare character in a legal name fails in four different ways that look identical from the counter. One of the... SA Sarah Chew 31 Aug Developer Tools 5 min Why fancy text breaks search and screen readers The bold and script letters people put in bios are not a font. They are mathematical notation, and the standar... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Chinese Culture 5 min The h in Cantonese Yale is not a sound At the start of a syllable the h is the consonant you expect. At the end it is silent — it marks the tone. Beg... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min 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... SA Sarah Chew 21 Aug ASEAN Tech 5 min 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... DA Daniel Koh 21 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 d... SA Sarah Chew 21 Aug Developer Tools 16 min Encoding Is Not Encryption: Base64, Percent-Encoding and the Confusion That Leaks Data The RFC that defines Base64 says in its own Security Considerations that base encoding "visually hides" a pass... KE Kenji Tanaka 25 Jul