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What's the point of rendering characters that can't be understood by the reader? I can't read chinese, cyrillic, native american scripts, etc, so it's not worth
by vortico 8y ago
What's the point of rendering characters that can't be understood by the reader? I can't read chinese, cyrillic, native american scripts, etc, so it's not worth the 12MB in apps and definitely websites.
- syrrim 8y agoIf it renders in a facsimile of the correct script, this allows you to: - see that it's foreign text, rather than pictographs or weird english text. - see when the shapes of other languages are used to make pictures (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) - if it's a foreign language, you can guess which language - you can guess at the complexity of what was written, for example by looking for repeated substrings.