[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)