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I adopted Unicode character U+5B57 「å—ã€!
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 28 Feb 2022 | Tagged as: Japan, language, Unicode, web technology
One fun thing I did, late in 2021, was to donate a bit of money to the Unicode Consortium to sponsor U+5B57 「å—ã€, my favourite of their more than 144,000 characters. It is a silly thing, but also a bit noble, and a bit useful, and a bit interesting if one peels back the cover and looks at the mechanisms to which it connects. In other words, it is the sort of thing I like to do.
Continue Reading »InDesign 20周年 — 20 years of InDesign-J
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 28 Feb 2021 | Tagged as: culture, Japan
On 6. February 2021, a day-long series of web presentations in Japan celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Japanese version of Adobe InDesign. I tuned in from British Columbia, late Friday night my time. Mixed in with tips about the latest InDesign features were reminescences by the key Adobe employees from the time about how InDesign Japanese Version came to be. It turned out to be more than some tales of just another product. It was a warm reunion, particularly on the chat threads. It was the story of a singular gathering of Japanese printing expertise at a singular time of transformation. It was for many of the speakers a capstone event of their careers.
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