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I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicod

I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicode standard, so submited the proposal for change. Probably there's dozen of people involved in this... but seeing it being changed brought me great joy. I was a tiny part in changing a tiny mostly irrelevant detail that was causing a slight inconvenience to millions of people daily. Improving humanity one bit at a time...

pc86 4y ago
This is great! Imagine how many people had no idea how to get something like that fixed yet noticed the bug.
jackpirate 4y ago
Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.
- exikyut 4y ago
  FWIW searching https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ for "magic" finds a bunch of posts that might also fit with that topic. (The rest of the posts are an interesting rabbithole if you're not aware, apologies in advance)
- O_H_E 4y ago
  Well, that's going to be a very cool class I best !
- paulschreiber 4y ago
  I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1279558 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+... It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797 It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.
- fimdomeio 4y ago
  Started as a firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275 Then moved to unicode CLDR: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106 https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106

pc86 4y ago

This is great! Imagine how many people had no idea how to get something like that fixed yet noticed the bug.

jackpirate 4y ago

Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.

exikyut 4y ago
FWIW searching https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ for "magic" finds a bunch of posts that might also fit with that topic. (The rest of the posts are an interesting rabbithole if you're not aware, apologies in advance)
O_H_E 4y ago
Well, that's going to be a very cool class I best !
paulschreiber 4y ago
I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1279558 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+... It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797 It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.
fimdomeio 4y ago
Started as a firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275 Then moved to unicode CLDR: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106 https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106