Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)
by johncolanduoni on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:49AM
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I don't think there is an easy answer to this. Even just pure RTL text is hard to support: IIRC Android and iOS only recently made all the built-in views support it. This is complicated by the fact that most developer teams don't have nor can afford to hire someone familiar with RTL to implement this kind of stuff.
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I don't think the rules in Unicode are simple for anyone. I have seen professional developers who are native speakers of RTL languages screw it up. All this stuff about the directionality of a paragraph and the embedded markers... It boggles the mind. But a truly international product should be getting it right. Sad mismatch there.
PS: bit of trivia that people forget these days, Win32 has been supporting it for longer than android/iOS.