[HN Gopher] Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways
___________________________________________________________________
Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways
Author : mapmeld
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-11-08 19:14 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.georeactor.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.georeactor.com)
| jihadjihad wrote:
| It's OT, but it reminds me of something I saw on HN a while back
| about how Costa Rica handles addresses [0].
|
| 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999366
| tgma wrote:
| This is nothing unique to maps. It has to do with Unicode bidi
| algorithm mixing RTL and LTR text in various contexts. Note that
| in RTL languages you have things like numbers that are rendered
| in LTR and mixing them introduces complexity.
|
| https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
| mapmeld wrote:
| I did a write-up because it was an example of broken text "in
| the wild" rather than in technical references. Also it takes me
| a minute to think of () as open/close parens instead of
| left/right parens.
| tgma wrote:
| Yeah. Nothing against your article. As someone whose native
| language is RTL I can tell you this is not an isolated case
| at all. If you're used to operating a computer in RTL
| languages like Arabic script you'd see this stuff every
| single day. Not exaggerating at all. ;)
|
| Unicode is such a complex beast this is just one aspect of
| it.
| jprd wrote:
| I don't know why, but when I first saw this headline I thought it
| was going to be something like a "Double Irish with a Dutch
| Sandwich".
|
| The actual topic is much more interesting :D
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-11-08 23:00 UTC)