cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/217784
Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.
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I found this interesting since it’s basically about unicode support, so I did some research. This article seems bullshit, it seems like rhe residents are expected to use the english version of the streetname (Musqueamview) and not the indigenous one with uncommon letters. So, the problems described is totally fabricated. But also: databases shouldn’t forbid uncommon unicode letters if it isn’t called for.
But also: databases shouldn’t forbid uncommon unicode letters if it isn’t called for.
I stumble across this issue quite often. When you fill out a form for US customs, you are both required to provide exact data and you are only allowed a-z, 0-9, and some punctuation. That you cannot fulfil both because they are mutually exclusive does not cross their blessed little minds.
Yet another anglosaxon government suppressing non anglosaxon culture
Anglo-Saxon? Lmao what a bizarre way to talk. Not that it even makes sense considering Anglo-Saxon settlers in the US weren’t even close to being the majority.
It’s down to unicode support. Not a plot from “Anglo-Saxons” to keep others in their place lol
To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.
Arguably. Or it’s just what the dev team was used to. Or a bunch of other explanations.
I just don’t find “a historic Germanic group of settlers that immigrated to medieval Britain are purposely neglecting unicode support as a means to suppress people that aren’t part of their group.”
Going through their post history, they seem obsessed with the “Anglo Saxons”.
Just a bizarre conspiracy theory from a one day old account that’s also advocating for genociding everyone in the middle east lol