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Re: CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter

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Post by wggl »

kylec wrote: post #26
yorwba wrote: post #6

表姐, in case you were wondering.

The "CN" is just the prefix for the Contacts framework, it doesn't refer to Chinese

表姐 means older female cousin of a different surname. If surnames are always passed down via the father that implies an elder cousin who is either your mother’s sibling’s daughter or your father’s sister’s daughter.

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Post by TimTheTinker »

At first glance this looked like a code smell, but after some reflection I can't think of a cleaner, more readable way to uniquely identify each possible relationship -- especially in a strongly-typed language with an IDE.

Here's the full list: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/contacts_...

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Post by kenneth »

rudiv wrote: post #23
yorwba wrote: post #6

表姐, in case you were wondering.

I'm assuming those Mandarin characters comprise the word for that relationship? I was wondering why this existed and I thought maybe they were adding the Hindi words for specific relatives (there's many, I assume the same is true for Mandarin).

Mandarin is a spoken language. The characters are "Simplified Chinese" in this case. The characters will sound different read in different languages.

e.g. the two Traditional Chinese characters 東京 translate roughly to "Eastern Capital" and are read dōngjīng, while they are also valid Japanese Kanji where they have the same meaning and are read as Tokyo. (Yes, the name of the capital of Japan.) Interestingly, Běijīng and Nánjīng similarly mean "northern" and "southern" capital respectively.

Re: CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter

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Post by helloviper »

rudiv wrote: post #23
yorwba wrote: post #6

表姐, in case you were wondering.

I'm assuming those Mandarin characters comprise the word for that relationship? I was wondering why this existed and I thought maybe they were adding the Hindi words for specific relatives (there's many, I assume the same is true for Mandarin).

In Chinese culture, your male line ancestry matter more. Your mother's family is considered auxiliary ('外家'), thus only your father's brother's children are considered in the same family, and these cousins are labeled “堂”, all the other cousins are labeled "表”, and "姐" means older sister.

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Post by salgernon »

For a long time, the Carbon universal headers Included a plain, non-namespaced (c header) MacTypes.h which included:

enum { h = 0, v = 1 };

This could lead to very confusing compiler errors... it was there for compatibility with an anonymous pascalnunion that let you treat a pascal Rect as an anonymous array of two Point structures..

Re: CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter

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Post by mrob »

saagarjha wrote: post #22
mrob wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a good place for some zero-width spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space

Those aren’t automatic, though.

HN already supports title edits, so it's simpler than changing the CSS, and it's easier to read because the breaking is on the internal word boundaries. Here's the title with the zero-width spaces added:

CN Label Contact Relation Elder Cousin Mothers Siblings Daughter Or Fathers Sisters Daughter

EDIT: HN strips zero-width spaces and replaces them with normal spaces, so I can't post it here.

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