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Google Translate only supports French and French (Canada), not French (Swiss) — at least that I can see.
Swiss french is not as much of a distinct variation, rather a dialect very similar to Belgian french.
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> Unicode's mission is to be able to represent all written text. Once you decide that flags should be part of that you kind of have to include all of them. Unicode has decided flags shouldn’t be part of Unicode. There are a few flag emoji that got included before they reached that decision and there are “regional indicator symbols” that often get displayed as flags, but that’s it. They won’t, for example, include fla…
That would be actual work. Instead they justify their existence by adding more poop emojis in various shades of brown and yellow...
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I can blame Microsoft. Every other tech company and OS figured out how to make it work and they're not exactly buckling under the weight of legal or political pressure on the matter of flags.
If you had the choice between "no lawsuits at all" and "lawsuits in random months by random countries for things that can escalate to violence and wars" you wouldn't take "no lawsuits at all"? Even if very few of the lawsuits actually escalate to violence or war, is any risk of violence/war worth it? Ethics would suggest "all my competitors are doing it" isn't a great answer here, either, and certainly doesn't remove…
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The issue is reality not being settled or agreed upon. For disputed territories there is effectively two realities both officially backed by sovereign countries. No, in a disputed territory there's one reality, and 1..n delusions.
Well, maybe that's what the victor will write in the future history books, but since today's mapmakers don't know who's going to win that's not really a helpful perspective.
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Two things: 1) Don’t lie. Apps don’t have to “lie” to do business in America. If someone labels the Gulf as the “Gulf of Mexico”, there’s not really a goddamn thing the Federal Government can do about it except throw a shit fit. The fullest extent that they can enforce this is on contractors making products and services specifically for the Federal Government’s and Military’s own use. 2) Maps apps are probably going…
So it's only bad when the Chinese or Russians do it? :)
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Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked.
> Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to keep a stable of local llms (and update them regularly, for example). Some people have other hobbies. > Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked. What? It's been years since a regular se…
The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got:
* A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution;
* A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users;
* This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway);
* OP's article;
* A blog post about OP's article;
* A blog post with an elegant solution using pyftsubset
[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render...
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They are not physically in control of Taiwan, so no, they haven't "won the war" in that respect. Not that it matters, because legitimacy of holding territory is not based on winning wars.
> They are not physically in control of Taiwan, so no, they haven't "won the war" in that respect. They won the civil war, just like the vietnamese won their war of independence against france. It's just that china, like vietnam, needs to win another war. The war against the US to fully liberate their nation like vietnam did. > Not that it matters, because legitimacy of holding territory is not based on winning wars.…
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> Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to keep a stable of local llms (and update them regularly, for example). Some people have other hobbies. > Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked. What? It's been years since a regular se…
Wait really? Are you saying this Google search[0] returns no useful results at all ? The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got: * A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution; * A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users; * This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway); * OP's article; * A blog post about OP's article; * A blog…
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Wait really? Are you saying this Google search[0] returns no useful results at all ? The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got: * A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution; * A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users; * This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway); * OP's article; * A blog post about OP's article; * A blog…
You're picking on the 0.25% searches that still return something useful.