The tallest building in Ürümqi, under construction since forever – at least since I first arrived there and still under construction when I left – as seen from Hong Shan.
The history and environment of Xinjiang furthermore got lots of attention in a recent hour-long episode of the BBC series “Wild China.” (see episode 4: “Beyond the Great Wall.”)
Vandaag begint het dan. Ik ren tegen Wouter in een running battle over 21 dagen. Wie legt er in die tijd de meeste kilometers af en wint? Een gestreden strijd al voordat we beginnen? We zullen zien…
Good news. As of the 26th of Oktober we won’t have to use clunky workarounds anymore to get Uighur to display correctly on an Apple computer. On the 26th Apple will be releasing a new version of their operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Have a look at their “list of 300+ new features“, under “International” is says:
Enhanced International Font Support Enjoy enhanced support for international fonts. Several fonts have improved Russian and Polish support; the Korean system font now supports the full set of modern Hangul; there are two new fonts in Tibetan; all built-in Arabic fonts now support Persian; and Leopard supports three additional Arabic-based scripts in Geeza Pro, Uyghur, Kurdish, and Jawi.
Yes, if it works as it says here it works then you’ll be able to use Uighur text in all Mac OS X applications and without having to rely on X11 or OpenOffice.org to display the script correctly.
I was aware of Apple being in talks with developers of Uighur fonts, their offices in de Hongqiao computer market off Zhongshan Lu in Urumqi, China. I also petitioned Apple by e-mail to include Uighur support in their upcoming release. But not until I saw the announcement today did I know if Uighur support would indeed be included.
The old photo gallery has now been taken off line in an effort to free up some space.
Until a year and a half ago the photo galleries were hosted in a separate space and by a separate piece of software, called Coppermine. Since then we’ve moved on to include photos in line and attached to the articles. Now it’s time to move on yet another step.
In order to enable us to keep uploading and attaching photos to upcoming articles we’ve taken the old photo gallery off line. This will free up enough space to keep us going for another while. As a result you may see strange numbers popping up in articles older then a year and half. These numbers provided the links to the photos inside the old photo galleries. To see what I’m on about, have a look at this article by Jeroen, from two years ago.
