The Associated Press announced the Bolivian launch of Quechuan software by Microsoft today. The article notes that the word used for file is “quipu”, “borrowing the name of an ancient Incan practice of recording information in an intricate system of knotted strings.” Both Microsoft Windows and Office offer Quechua. Other languages supported include several varieties [...]
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The secret writing system used by women in China is discussed at World of Nushu. This site is by Orie Endo, a sociolinguistic in Japan. Read about how she learned of 女書 in the 1990s and made trips to interview users of 女書. It is an endangered language mode. The existence of this language was [...]
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My first Windows machine was Japanese Windows 3.1. It required quite a bit of extra software to get Japanese capability, and it was slow. Each version of Windows has provided more international support, and beginning with Windows 2000, you can sometimes get international characters to work with programs that don’t explicitly support interntional character sets.
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