{"id":1149,"date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/12\/09\/1087\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","slug":"1087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/12\/09\/1087\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McGrath at ITworld \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/development\/58558\/pet-peeves-unicode\">Unicode<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be?<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Oh dear, when we hit the Middle East we hit languages that drive the wrong way on the page. Right to left! That changes essentially everything user-interface-related in most software. Further east we hit ideographics. The concept of a &#8222;letter&#8220; has just flew out of the occidental window. Not only that but the text is laid out top to bottom. What to do?&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/Just-use-Unicode\">Sam Ruby<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McGrath at ITworld \u2013 Unicode: &#8222;Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be? [\u2026] Oh dear, when we hit the Middle East we hit languages that drive the wrong way on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}