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In another example of ghost characters, someone couldn't spell Baht correctly [1]. And typos are frequent as ever [2]. Unicode is full of such mistakes, now st
by lifthrasiir 8y ago
In another example of ghost characters, someone couldn't spell Baht correctly [1]. And typos are frequent as ever [2].
Unicode is full of such mistakes, now stabilized thanks to the Stability Policy [3]. Thankfully having some character mistakenly encoded and/or named in Unicode seems to hurt virtually no one.
[1] https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/03/bahts-is-parts.html https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/03/bahts-is-parts.html
[2] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/ https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/
[3] https://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html https://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
- sho 8y agoAmusingly, even the Thais often don't spell baht "correctly". I'm there right now and see prices specified any number of ways: 100 บาท (in the local language) 100 B 100 ฿ 100 BAHT 100 BATH (disturbingly common) None of it matters of course as the meaning is totally evident from the context, but it's interesting coming from countries where symbols like $ or ¥ are totally dominant. ฿ is probably the least common of all of them (yes, less common than "bath") and it's kind of easy to see why - there's only one conceivable meaning a capital B could have coming after a number in Thailand, so why even bother learning the keystrokes to bring up the unicode?
- caf 8y agoVery much like c in place of ¢ for cents which is very common in some places. I've even seen e instead of €.