Apple currently publishes two notes listing the fonts provided with its products: For OS X 10.8, HT5379 For iOS 6, HT5484 Regarding conditio...
Paper Version of Unicode Standard Again Available
Unicode stopped publishing the hard copy edition of the Standard after Version 5.0, but has recently again made the core specification avail...
Multilingual Mac Web Site Updated
I've recently updated and simplified the reference web site, Unleash Your Multilingual Mac. Comments and corrections by viewers are alw...
Bugs in OS X Khmer and Myanmar Keyboard Layouts
Languages like Thai, Khmer, and Myanmar do not separate words with spaces, so achieving correct line endings can be a challenge. Normally t...
Emoji Name List
Both OS X and iOS have a very large number of Unicode Emoji characters available, either via a dedicated keyboard layout (iOS) or the Charac...
Unicode Bug in Pages
A poster in the ASC forums recently reminded me of a weird long-standing bug in the Pages app : You cannot directly input the Unicode chara...
New Mongolian Keyboard Layout
Thanks to the firm Mountain Edge, a new Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard layout is available for OS X. It follows the MS Windows pattern and can...
Cambridge English TV
Some of you are preparing the PET, the First Certificate, the Advance or the Proficiency Tests of Cambridge University. These series of vid...
Bugs in Apple's Telugu Font
A contributor to the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the Telugu Sangam font provided by Apple in iOS and OS X has incorrect c...
Twominuteenglish
At the airport, taking a taxi, ordering a pizza, greeting people or saying goodbye, you can listen, practice and learn English with these v...
New Braille Input Apps Available
For some time now there has been no way to use the standard keyboard to input Braille via the 6-key Perkins Brailler system -- the previousl...
Myanmar/Burmese Bug in iOS 6
It's been reported in the Apple discussions, and I have verified it myself, that trying to view Unicode Myanmar/Burmese webpages, emails...
iBookstore Adds Language Support
The latest iTunes Producer Guide, version 2.8, indicates that a number of new languages are now supported by iBooks and the iBookstore using...
iBooks 3 Adds Support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean
At the Apple event Oct. 23, 2012, a new version 3 of iBooks was announced, including vertical layout and correct page turning for CJK script...
Tools for teachers
The British Council and the BBC offer this place for teachers.As they say: " This is the place to come for tools to help you inside and...
OS X 10.8.2: Japanese Display Issue Addressed
Apple has issued a supplemental update to 10.8.2 which "Resolves and issue that may cause certain Japanese characters to appear incorr...
iOS 6 Has New Reference Dictionaries
I have found that iOS 6 will download reference dictionaries for Spanish, French and German if you hit the "define" item for a wo...
OS X 10.8.2: New Language Features
In this update released Sept. 19, 2012, Apple has added a French module to Dictionary.app and added Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Korean, Ca...
iOS 6 Language Features Published
(The same as OS 5 except for Siri, I believe) Language Support English (U.S.), English (UK), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Fr...
New Character Map App
Many users have been annoyed by Apple's deletion of the View = Glyph feature in the revised Character Viewer app of OS X 10.7 and later,...
OS X 10.8.1: Chinese Input Issue Addressed
Apple has released an update to Mountain Lion, 10.8.1, which includes a fix to "Address an issue that could cause the system to become ...
OS X 10.8: Chinese Text Converter Problem
Many users are finding that after upgrading to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the service for converting between Traditional and Simplified Chines...
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: New Language Features
OS X 10.8 was released 7/25/2012. It has no new OS/App localizations, keyboards for additional languages, or spellcheck dictionaries, but t...
iOS 6 Language Features Announced at WWDC 6/11
Siri languages expanded to include English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, German, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. New Chinese Feature...
OS X 10.8 Language Features Announced at WWDC 6/11
New Dictionary.app modules for German, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese Dictation in English (U.S., UK, and Australia), French, German, and J...
Diacritic Variations in Polytonic Greek
A poster in the Apple forums recently asked how he could get a particular form of the circumflex/perispomoni accent to appear in his ancient...
Project Britain
British Life, Symbols, Culture, Events, Customs and traditions, Education, History, Tourist information, hundreds of facts and figures, etc....
Font With New Turkish Lira Symbol
Thanks to Michael Everson, there is now a font available for those who need to display/print the new Turkish Lira symbol. See http://everty...
Bug In Apple Malayalam Fonts
A poster in the Apple discussions has pointed out the neither of the two fonts provided by Apple for the Malayalam script in OS X and iOS di...
Fixing Custom "English" Region Settings
English speakers living in countries where the native language is something else often wish to have their System Preferences/Language & ...
Fixes For Keyboard Layout Issues When Running Windows on a Mac
If you run Windows on your Mac via Bootcamp or a virtual machine, you may have noticed that Mac and PC keyboard layouts can be quite differe...
Tiching- The global educational network
A great site, dedicated to learning and totally free for teachers, students and families. Their slogan is :"Where the learning communit...
A New Way To Make Custom Keyboard Layouts
An earlier article described how you can customize the new Character Picker introduced with OS X 10.7 Lion, so that the popup menu that appe...
LEARN ENGLISH WHILE HELPING THE WORLD
Let's learn English watching a film while helping the International Justice to catch one of the world's worst war criminals. Joseph...
Adult learning activities
This website is part of the California Distance Learning Project and the project has been sponsored by the California Department of Educati...
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