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> It's definitely more complex than you'd naively think it is. It has been working just fine on macOS for more than 20 years now.
by kergonath 3y ago
> It's definitely more complex than you'd naively think it is.
It has been working just fine on macOS for more than 20 years now.
- creshal 3y ago…for English, and a handful of other European languages where the problem is trivial. Not for the 70% or so of humanity who isn't European or European-descendant.
- kergonath 3y agoIt uses a specific normalisation. It’s not perfect (even for supposedly easy European languages), but that’s still many less foot guns than the status quo. Again, macOS works just fine with these languages.
- creshal 3y agoOh, wait, THAT'S what keeps breaking umlauts every time Mac users try to share files with any other operating system? Bloody hell, that garbage just keeps causing trouble constantly.
- ElectricalUnion 3y ago[1] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3447 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3447 Less that 20 years ago. Not a small project.