The 100-plus pages in this section fulfill this purpose, and the inclusion of Chinese characters for local names will prove particularly useful.

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Local residents had complained the characters of their areas were changing because of an influx in students.

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Internationalised Domain Names form a vital part of the ecosystem necessary to foster the growth of local languages online and consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Cyrillic.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Bethesda Art Centre runs art workshops and sells wonderful quilts that are made by the local community and decorated with colourful Karoo characters and stories.

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The government also suspects (with reason) that too many local government negotiators, like the feeble characters who thought they had cut a deal with the firemen, would prove to be a soft touch for determined unions.

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When Coca-Cola began looking for a suitable Chinese version of its name after launching the drink there in 1927, it found that some local shopkeepers had produced homemade signs using Chinese characters to replicate the sound of the words "Coca-Cola, " without noticing that the characters in combination could be read as "female horse fastened with wax" or "bite the wax tadpole, " according to Coca-Cola researchers.

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Throughout the year, craftspeople carry sets of wooden characters and printing equipment to ancestral halls in local communities.

UNESCO: CULTURE

You control the human characters who undertake amusing tasks in glamorous tourist hotspots, including learning about local customs and cultures.

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Other characters include Holly, a ballet dancer who works as a stripper and pole-dancer at a local club and Juliette, a pharmacy assistant who dreams of going to Africa to help starving children.

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