Nestled on the western coast of the Greek island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was once one of the most influential centers in ancient Greece and the entire Mediterranean world. For ...

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The discovery of an unidentified text in Hungary has led to more than 200 years of attempts to determine who authored it and to decipher its contents. Many scholars have studied the text, known as the ...

Windows binaries are provided; while no installation is needed, you need to decompress everything and then run "pdf_viewer_app.exe" within the folder "pdf_viewer_app". Make sure you have writing ...

Homograph (also known as homoglyph) phishing attacks are based on the idea of using similar characters to pretend to be another site. While most of them are easily recognizable by end-users with ...

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, the regime in Belarus has progressively made Belarusian into a monoscriptal language, with Cyrillic as its single official script. This Russification and the ...

A few days ago, I gave an interview to a reporter at The Washington Post. She wanted to know why the peach emoji, a long-time sexting favourite, widely used to designate, how shall we put it nicely, a ...

Recently, I wrote about how to use special characters to identify languages that use Latin alphabets. But what about all those other alphabets? You can't be expected to memorize them all, of course.

Thanks to globalization, it's very likely that at some point you've found yourself faced with a line of text written in a language you couldn't quite identify. Maybe in the international section of a ...