What the actual font? Bolding outrageously changes glyphs? 😮
(Kannada text "mo" rendered in three fonts: without and with bolding. Bolding the text in Nirmala Text font in MS Word changes the glyph to something non-existent in Kannada.)
#font #Kannada #technology #fail #UX #localization #internationalization #i18n #MS_Word #Microsoft
Google, what are these absolutely cursed date format options!??
Just give me YYYY-MM-DD 😭
I literally have to count out the month names on my fingers since for a decade+ I have lived in a world of Japanese dates (numbered months) and SQL timestamps 😭
It was a privilege to introduce the software #internationalization and #localization community to #OpenHistoricalMap (and #OpenStreetMap and @maplibre) at #UTW2025. Join us in mapping yesterday already!
Of course those who follow me know that I'm a big fan of #multilingual authoring if not else because of my 2023 article about implementing the #SMIL #switch element in #HTML plus #CSS —which isn't actually possible, requiring a little bit of #JavaScript too:
https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/switch-element/
(And I'm not saying Mastodon should implement them using the trick above; it definitely needs a better interface.)
#askFedi would you like to have the possibility to make multilingual (ML) posts, i.e. a *single* post with the text available in multiple languages *at once*? Currently, you have to either do separate posts, or squeeze multiple languages within your server's character limit, and only mark it for one of the languages (see e.g. https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110872023337803783 + https://sociale.network/@oblomov/114983566130691059).
(Select appropriate option based on whether you're a native English speaker.)
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