What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

Post by jdblair » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 3:42 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #129

qwerty456127 wrote: post #23

> People are not limited to a single locale. For example, I can read and write English (USA), English (UK), German, and Russian. Which locale should I set my computer to? Ideally - the "English-World" locale is supposedly meant for us, cosmopolitans. It's included with Windows 10 and 11. Practically, as "English-World" was not available in the past (and still wasn't available on platforms other than Windows the last…

As an Irish person, while we have en_IE which is great (and solves most of the problems you list re: Euro-centric defaults + English), I'd still quite like to have an even more broad / trans-language / "cosmopolitan" locale to use. I mainly type in English but occasionally other languages - I use a combination of Mac & Linux - macOS has an (off-by-default but enable-able) lang-changer icon in the tray that is handy e…

Post by booleandilemma » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

dathinab wrote: post #66

oliwarner wrote: post #52

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It's tracking every visitors' cursor and sharing it with every other visitor. Why would a frontend developer demonstrate their ability to do frontend programming on their personal, not altogether super-serious blog? I meant that rhetorically but it's a flex. I agree, not the best design in the world if you're catering for particular needs, but simple and fun enough. You should check out dark mode. In that vein, I thi…

> Why would because it shows that they don't understand important design aspects while it doesn't really show off their technical skills because it could be some plugin or copy pasted code, only someone who looks at the code would know better. But if someone care enough about you to look at your code you don't need to show of that skill on you normal web-site and can have some separate tech demo. > okay if we let peo…

Post by actualwitch » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 3:45 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #83

grotorea wrote: post #74

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> Practically, as "English-World" was not available in the past (and still wasn't available on platforms other than Windows the last time I checked), I have always been setting the locale to En-US even though I have never been to America. This leads to a number of annoyances though. E.g. LibreOffice always creates new documents for the Letter paper format and I have to switch it to A4 manually every time. It's even w…

Thank you very much, I'll give it a try.

Post by hot_gril » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 3:46 PM UTC

Post by jcranmer » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

pif wrote: post #152

jcranmer wrote: post #142

There's one part of this document that I would push extremely hard against, and that's the notion that "extended grapheme clusters" are the one true, right way to think of characters in Unicode, and therefore any language that views the length in any other way is doing it wrong. The truth of the matter is that there are several different definitions of "character", depending on what you want to use it for. An extende…

> An extended grapheme cluster is largely defined on "this visually displays as a single unit", which isn't necessarily correct for things like "display size in a monospace font" or "thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace." I'm sorry, but I fail to see how "This visually displays as a single unit" could ever differ from "Display size in a monospace font" or "Thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace".