Ladies and gentlemen! I'm very happy to announce that Tagxedo now supports international languages. Not only languages with accented characters, but also languages with complex characters such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and so on. If you haven't visited the new language gallery, please, please check it out!

Language support turns out to be an amazingly and beautiful extension of Tagxedo. I had my first "Wow!" moment when I first saw what Tagxedo can do with shapes. Now I have my second "Wow!" moment. Languages are just so gorgeously expressed in this new art form called Tagxedo.

Interestingly, making a word cloud out of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters is tricky due to the lack of whitespace between words. Imaging reading a sentence "Wholetthedogsout" and having to figure out that it should read "Who let the dogs out" instead of "Whole tt hed og sout". Tagxedo uses a different technique for such languages, and the result was not bad at all! The image shown is one such example. If you take this image and show it to Chinese, he/she most likely will be able to tell you right away where the text comes from (answer: the Chinese classic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms").

I am very excited about this feature. Hope you like it too. Even if you don't speak the languages, go visit the language gallery and see for yourself. Enjoy!