Author

Carlos Bueno

Carlos Bueno is a software engineer with Xoopit / Photos for Yahoo! Mail. He writes occasionally about overlooked aspects of internationalization, performance, and security. He lives in San Francisco.

Also from this author

Accent Folding for Auto-Complete

Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just "internationalized" but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user interactions work better.