Screenshot: Strange symbol exampleAs translators, we deal with written text all the time. In the digital world, text is represented using the Unicode standard which encodes the individual graphemes of all written languages and can be considered the Bible for anyone dealing with electronic text. And since the job of the translator is to transpose text from one language to another, we must use the proper Unicode symbols to do that. In this article, you will learn how to identify any Unicode symbol that you encounter in electronic documents in order to decide whether it should be retained, removed or replaced in the translation...

January 20, 2015
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