The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters

(blog.alexbeals.com)

15 points | by dado3212 4 days ago

3 comments

  • dhosek 15 minutes ago
    Mixing R-L and L-R scripts (as has been discussed here on many occasions) is a ripe arena for mysterious behavior. Given that even monolingual texts in R-L scripts will often include L-R characters, it can get hairy quickly. A desire to try to avoid having visible markers in text around the transitions is partly why the Unicode spec around bidi text is so complicated.
  • rhplus 1 minute ago
    Disappointed that xn--sei.com or <insert fleuron here>.com is apparently registered but not redirecting to ornately decorated texts.
  • SoftTalker 17 minutes ago
    This is why I stick to standard ASCII.
    • dhosek 14 minutes ago
      The millions of people who write in RL languages would like a word…
      • grayhatter 10 minutes ago
        a word, or a drow?

        But I'd also like a word with them. Or anyone else who might have a suggestion for "required reading". I'd like to think I know better than to use ascii art when it might flow into rtl text, but I wonder what other assumptions I've made that I should be aware are assumptions.