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Operating systems notwithstanding, there should definitely be such option for every OS widget, that displays text (including Android TextView). And it should de
by altfredd 3y ago
Operating systems notwithstanding, there should definitely be such option for every OS widget, that displays text (including Android TextView). And it should default to disabling all BiDi backdoors unless developer explicitly vetted specific text span to enable them.
Making entire text rendering stack vulnerable by default under pretext of catering to less than 1% of world population is ridiculous.
- dixie_land 3y agoExactly, somethings should've just been left ASCII. The push to use Unicode in many components for "inclusiveness" are simply political.
- ptx 3y agoOr perhaps KOI-7 N1, another 7-bit text encoding [0]. The Cyrillic alphabet should be good enough for anyone. As you say, no need to let Americans use their native alphabet just to feel included. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-7