The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
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The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
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Re: The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
#2This is why I stick to standard ASCII.
Re: The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
#3Mixing 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.
Re: The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
#4This is why I stick to standard ASCII.
The millions of people who write in RL languages would like a word…
Re: The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters
#5This is why I stick to standard ASCII.
The millions of people who write in RL languages would like a word…
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.
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#6Disappointed that xn--sei.com or .com is apparently registered but not redirecting to ornately decorated texts.
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#7This is why I stick to standard ASCII.
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#9If you are using plain text and don't have access to HTML or CSS markup, you can follow the RTL character with U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK to achieve the same effect. And even if you do have access to those things, using U+200E ensures that operations that strip markup (like copy-paste) don't break your text.