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What challenges did I have when I included a local version of my name in social media?

Bogomil Shopov - Бого on March 13, 2024

Hi, I come from Bulgaria, a country in the Balkans. Looking back on history, apart from how it shaped my short-fuze Balkan DNA, I feel proud of m...
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Ingo Steinke • Edited

Every maker should expect any string to support any international glyph thanks to UTF-8. When people add emojis everywhere, why should Cyrillic be more problematic? But I think it can be confusing to our brains to see two related alphabets on the same line. I remember a German journalist claimed that he had visited a restaurant named "Pectopah". Put that in caps, it becomes "PECTOPAH" ("restoran") , and you will understand why there is no place with that name.

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Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Pectopah - That's my favorite place on earth :)

On the UX topic:
Some fonts for example have different faces for Latin and Cyrilic or they default to something else. It's rare these days, but I still see it!

Thanks for jumping in!