The archive of older news items posted. These items are best seen in a RSS news viewer such as the Penn State Portal, Feed Demon (Windows) or NetNewsWire (Mac OS X ). http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international Elizabeth J. Pyatt ejp10@psu.edu Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EDT Copyright 2004-2007. All rights reserved. en-us http://www.psu.edu/images/psuicon.png http://www.psu.edu Added country codes for African nations and ISO-639-3 Colloquial Arabic codes. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/arabic.html Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:15:00 EDT Information and accents for Maltese language. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/maltese.html Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:15:00 EDT A chart with entity codes for the Japanese Hiragana script http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/japanesechartkatakana.html Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:45:00 EDT A chart with entity codes for the Japanese Hiragana script http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/japanesecharthiragana.html Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:45:00 EDT Information and links about computing with the Ainu language of Japan http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ainu.html Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:45:00 EDT This page describes how include non-English content in this web conferencing system. Mac users need to cut and paste text from TextEdit. Windows users can type Unicode text in directly. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/breeze.html Wed, 02 May 2007 10:00:00 EDT This is an alphabetical listing of common internationalization (i18n) terms http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/glossary.html Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:45:00 EDT The page has been updated to remove incorrect information and include language codes for different Arabic speaking countries. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/arabic.html Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:45:00 EDT This page now includes information on new language variety tags and ISO-639-3 tags (used for linguistics) http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/langtag.html Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST Unlike XHTML, many XML schemas do not recognize entity codes, so developers should use Unicode aware text editors like Notepad (Windows) or Text Edit (Mac) to create UTF-8 XML files. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/xml.html Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST Discusses different tags, entity codes and CSS options for superscript and subscript text. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/superscript.html Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST Vista is scheduled to include a new set of fonts, keyboards and fixes. A lot are for Indic languages, but others are for languages like Georgian, Ethiopic and Cherokee and East Asian languages. http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/vista/Whats_New_Vista.mspx Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST Older stories are stored in the archive newsfeed at http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/rss/intarchive.xml http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/rss/intarchive.xml Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:45:00 EDT Hex to decimal conversion is built into the Calculator utility for system 10.4. Just go to the "View" menu then "Programming", then Programmer to access the function. Also includes a "Unicode" button to convert a number to a Unicode glyph (fonts permitting). Thanks to Michael Czepiel for his assistance. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/unicodefourdigit.html#hexatips Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:15:00 EST This is a sister site maintained by the Webmaster of the Penn State TLT Computing with Accents site. Enjoy. http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/e/j/ejp10/psu/gotunicode/ Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:15:00 EST Slovo.info lists links to Unicode fonts with characters for languages such as Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Lithuanian http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:15:00 EST If you are having problems with using Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati or Tamil keyboards with Office 2004, you may wish to try Neo Office J or Text Edit. See the By Language index for details on each script. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/southasia.html Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:15:00 EST The Student Computing lab machines now have Unicode compliant keyboards and fonts installed. Windows users can use the Unicode UCL Keyboard with Doulos SIL, Arial Unicode or TITUS Cyberbit. Mac Users can use the SIL IPA Keyboard with with Doulos SIL, Lucida Grande or TITUS Cyberbit. Instructions are on http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipa.html#kbd http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipa.html#kbd Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:00:00 EST Information about using math suymbols with Unicode has been added. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/math.html Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:30:00 EST Information on changing default fonts in Firefox 2 has been added to the Firefox page. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/firefox.html Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:30:00 EST Information on changing default fonts in Internet Explorer 7 has been added to the IE page. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/iewin.html Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:30:00 EST The Gallery of Unicode Fonts page has moved from travelphrases.info to http://www.wazu.jp/. All the old information should still be intact. We wish the new webmaster the best of luck. http://www.wazu.jp/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:55:00 EDT This page describes the Greek script and variants and how they are implemented in Unicode. Very comprehensive. http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode.html Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:45:00 EDT Information about fonts and utilities for Amharic, Ge'ez and Tigrinya. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ethiopic.html Fri, 28 July 2006 16:15:00 EDT Information about Oromo has been posted. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/oromo.html Fri, 28 July 2006 16:15:00 EDT Unicode entity codes for the historic Baybaybin script. Note that modern Tagalog (Phillipines) is normally written in the Roman alphabet. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/tagalogchart.html Fri, 28 July 2006 16:15:00 EDT Links to pages on several African languages including Swahili, Yoruba, Hausa, Zulu and Wolof. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/africa.html Thu, 27 July 2006 13:45:00 EDT Links to pages on several African languages including Swahili, Yoruba, Hausa, Zulu and Wolof. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/africa.html Thu, 27 July 2006 13:45:00 EDT Information on accent codes for Walloon, a language of Belgium related to French. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/walloon.html Thu, 27 July 2006 13:45:00 EDT Expanded Internet Explorer browser setup pages to include information for I.E. 7. The old setup page moved to http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/iewin06.html http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/iewin.html Mon, 10 July 2006 15:50:00 EDT Expanded Opera browser setup pages to include information for Opera 9 http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/opera.html Mon, 10 July 2006 15:50:00 EDT Step-by-step tutorial explaining how to create an Arabic or Hebrew XHTML document supporting Unicode and RTL direction. http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/ Thu, 18 May 2006 10:15:00 EDT HTML Unicode entity codes for phonetic symbols. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipachart.html Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST You can download the FPMF Armenian package free. The package contains five fonts in a mixture of faces ranging from traditional to modern. See the Gallery of Unicode Fonts (http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Armenian.html) and ArmenianUnicode Org (http://www.armunicode.org/en/fonts/unicode/TimesArmenianUnicode/) for additional fonts. Thanks to Sarkis Baltayian for this information. http://matenadaran.org/eng/fonts/ Thu, 19 Apr 2006 14:30:00 EDT Freeware phonetic keyboards are available from both University College London (Windows) and SIL.org (Macintosh). The IPA page explains how to install and use both. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipa.html Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:00:00 EST HTML Unicode entity codes for accents such as the long mark and hachek. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipavowels.html Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST Instructions and screen captures for the Global Writer program installed in the Penn State Student Computing Labs. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/globalwriter.html Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:00:00 EST See the individual By Language pages for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian and Greek for updated information on how to install and use keyboard utilities in the Student Computing Labs (vs. home computers). Thu,18 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/index.html Information about Breton, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic and Cornish accent marks and language codes. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/celtic.html Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDT Global Writer, East Asian utlities and phonetics software can all be found by going to the "Star" menu, then "International Language Utilities". Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information about Tibetan fonts and freeware utilities. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/tibetan.html Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDT Includes test pages and links to RUBY documentation. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/vertical.html Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDT Accent and language codes for Catalan. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/catalan.html Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Accent and language codes for Occitan (France). http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/occitan.html Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Language Codes and links for selected minority languages of Spain. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/spanish.html Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Accent and language codes for Albanian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/albanian.html Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Accent and language codes for Hawaiian, Samoan, Maori, Tongan and Tahitian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/polynesian.html Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information on how to configure Opera 8 for foreign language Web viewing added. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/opera.html Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information and links about computing with scripts from India. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/southasia.html Fri 27 May 2005 16:00:00 EDT Informatin about new phonetics keyboard utilities and OS X Japanese fonts with some phonetic characters. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipa.html Fri 27 May 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information about Georgian computing. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/georgian.html Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information about Chinese dialects/languages has been added as well as RFC 3066 language codes. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/chinese.html Fri, 15 April 2005 16:00:00 EDT Basic information on computing in Estonian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/estonian.html Fri, 15 April 2005 16:00:00 EDT Basic information on computing in Latvian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/latvian.html Fri, 15 April 2005 16:00:00 EDT Basic information on computing in Lithuanian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/lithuanian.html Fri, 15 April 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information on using Kurdish with multiple scripts. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/kurdish.html Fri, 15 April 2005 16:00:00 EDT These Web-based utilities allow users to click a key for a phonetic symbol, then cut and paste it into another document such as the most recent versions of Microsoft Word. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipa.html Wed 06 Apr 2005 16:00:00 EDT Information on utilities for the major languages of Afghanistan: Pashto, Dari Persian and Uzbek in the Arabic script. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/pashto.html Wed 06 Apr 2005 16:00:00 If you don't know where to begin, then this page will provide an overview of encoding foreign language text electronically in Unicode and provide an overview of what kinds of utlities and fonts are needed to support individual languages. It will also point you to places on the site where specific information is outlined. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/unicode.html Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:00 EST Information about the modern Syriac/Assyrian/Aramaic language of Syria. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/syriac.html Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:00 EST Global Writer is now available in the Student Computing Labs. Go to Start » Word Processors » Unitype Global Writer to use. Global Writer allows users to type quickly in languages from Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere and content can be exported as encoded HTML documents. Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:00:00 EST Links for pages on configuring Linux and Unix have been added. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/links.html#unix Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:00:00 EST After a long halt in updates, the international site is being worked on again. The most recent addition is a page on Armenian. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/armenian.html Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:00:00 EST An article describing the challenges and progress made in posting African language content on the Internet. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/international/africa/12africa.html Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:00:00 EST Several freeware fonts were released for several South Asian scripts. In addition, additional fonts and utlities were included in Microsoft most recent SP 2 release. See the Alan Wood Unicode Resources Page for updated listings. http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:00:00 EST Microsoft Office has been upgraded to version 2004. Although it is Unicode compliant, some adjustments in older documents may be needed if they are opened up in this version. Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:00:00 EST An article describing the challenges and progress made in putting African language on the Internet. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/international/africa/12africa.html Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:00:00 EST Includes basic information for accent codes and links to information about Baybayin script. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/tagalog.html Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:00:00 EDT The "super" font TITUS Cyberbit has been added to the PC and Mac platforms, and Saraswati5 has been added to the Mac platform. TITUS is a serif font which includes support for phonetic symbols, Central Asian Cyrillic characters, several Middle Eastern and Asian scripts and classical scripts such as Coptic, Runes and Ogam. Saraswait5 includes symbols for several South Asian/Indian scripts. These scripts are already supported on the Windows platform by Microsoft fonts. Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:00:00 EDT The Firefox browser is now available in the CLC Student Computing Labs for Windows and Mac (and possibly Linux). http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/firefox.html Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:00:00 EDT New pages about different scripts of India and Sri Lanka have been added. Support is incomplete in some cases, but Unicode is being used more and more. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/index.html#southasia Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:00:00 EDT Avoid BOLD and ITALICS formatting unless you are working with Western European languages. Many fonts are missing information about bold face or italics causing browsers to display nothing. Use color for highlights instead. Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:00:00 EDT Information and codes for Central Asian Turkic languages which can be written in Cyrillic, Arabic or the Roman alphabet. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/turkic.html Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT Information and codes for languages besides Russian which are written in Cyrillic. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/cyrillic.html Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT External page which lists available fonts by script. http://www.wazu.jp/ Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT How to configure Romanian utilities and fonts as well as develop Romanian Web pages. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/romanian.html Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT How to configure Vietnamese utilities and fonts as well as develop Vietnamese Web pages. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/vietnamese.html Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT Detailed information for using Unicode with Vietnames. Covers Windows, Linux and Unix. http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT Information and utilities for typing Urdu in Windows. Special fonts available. http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/mlk/470/urdupage.htm Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT A list of available Unicode fonts with phonetic symbols. Includes freeware, shareware and commercial. http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_IPA.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT Instructions for how to send encoded e-mail in different packages, particularly netscape/Mozilla Composer. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/browsers/email.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT A description of some codes for the "Extended Keyboard" which allows users to type macrons, Solavic letters, accented y and other characters. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemacext.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT A Unicode chart based on Unicode 4.0 for the Cyrillic script. Includes Russian, other Slavic languages and Central Asian languages. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/cyrchart.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT A Unicode chart based on Unicode 4.0 for Greek and Coptic. Includes Polytonic accents and archainc letters. http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/greekchart.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT A Unicode chart based on Unicode 4.0 for Hebrew. Includes Hebrew and Yiddish consonants, accents and vowel points http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/hebrewchart.html Tue 20 Jul 2004 16:00:00 EDT