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I'm amused by the subtitles of some of the Atelier games showing up as strikethroughs because of the Japanese practice of writing subtitles ~like this~.

sho_hn 4y ago
Off-topic, but perhaps someone might appreciate this factoid in a hacker spirit sense (or it makes them check their code at work): Randomly reminds me of a relatively common CJK bug in Qt-based software. Qt comes with its own string class that supports substitution like this: QString("%1 %2").arg(foo).arg(bar) This is often naively used by devs to e.g. build filesystem paths (the framework has better APIs for this). With CJK, it often happens that HTML-style percent encoding ends up in strings and filenames somewhere (think %20 for space, etc; a lot of CJK ends up percent-encoded), and then arg() substitutes into the wrong thing and everything breaks. I've fixed this at least twice in Qt-based music players dealing with song metadata, thanks to a Korean-language music collection and Korean radio/podcast streams.
- soulofmischief 4y ago
  A factoid is something which seems true but isn't. Perhaps you mean fact. If you must stress the insignificant nature of the fact, there is also factlet, trivia etc.
  - sho_hn 4y ago
    I appreciate this :-) I thought a factoid is a "small, not-so-important fact".
    - rgoulter 4y ago
      The "not actually a fact" usage is the original intent of the word. "Trivial fact" is how 'factoid' is commonly used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
      - ASalazarMX 4y ago
        Quote for the lazy A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information. The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print. Since the term's invention in 1973, it has become used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information.
    - soulofmischief 4y ago
      It's funny how the general consensus of the definition of factoid is itself a factoid :)

sho_hn 4y ago

Off-topic, but perhaps someone might appreciate this factoid in a hacker spirit sense (or it makes them check their code at work): Randomly reminds me of a relatively common CJK bug in Qt-based software. Qt comes with its own string class that supports substitution like this: QString("%1 %2").arg(foo).arg(bar) This is often naively used by devs to e.g. build filesystem paths (the framework has better APIs for this). With CJK, it often happens that HTML-style percent encoding ends up in strings and filenames somewhere (think %20 for space, etc; a lot of CJK ends up percent-encoded), and then arg() substitutes into the wrong thing and everything breaks. I've fixed this at least twice in Qt-based music players dealing with song metadata, thanks to a Korean-language music collection and Korean radio/podcast streams.

soulofmischief 4y ago
A factoid is something which seems true but isn't. Perhaps you mean fact. If you must stress the insignificant nature of the fact, there is also factlet, trivia etc.
- sho_hn 4y ago
  I appreciate this :-) I thought a factoid is a "small, not-so-important fact".
  - rgoulter 4y ago
    The "not actually a fact" usage is the original intent of the word. "Trivial fact" is how 'factoid' is commonly used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
    - ASalazarMX 4y ago
      Quote for the lazy A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information. The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print. Since the term's invention in 1973, it has become used to describe a brief or trivial item of news or information.
  - soulofmischief 4y ago
    It's funny how the general consensus of the definition of factoid is itself a factoid :)