Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp

Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by minikomi on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:01AM (#27658282)

Speaking for Japanese, there is certainly an "order" for words, but that order is based on the readings of words, which may be difficult to ascertain from just the string.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goj%C5%ABon

Eg. Words starting with 一人 can be read as both いちにん (ichinin as in 一人前 - food for one person) or ひとり (hitori - 一人暮らし - living alone)

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by glandium on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:29AM (#27658412)

Also some independent words can have different readings. Eg. 紅葉 is both こうよう and もみじ.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by naniwaduni on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:49AM (#27658528)

大人気 is my favourite of those, as a particularly long ambiguous homograph where the two common readings don't even have overlapping meanings.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by glandium on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:09AM (#27658628)

Indeed, that one can be funny especially when split over a line ending. You start reading it as one, and no, it was the other. I've had this experience several times with this specific word.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by beeforpork on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:23AM (#27660410)

(1) 大人気 (おとなげ, otonage) - maturity

(2) 大人気 (だいにんき, daininki) - very popular

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