This is glorious. A printed ticket in Israel, for an amusement park, seems to not understand bidirectionality at all, so in RTL, “14” becomes “41”. Continue reading “Children ‘a year old to 41 years old’”
Children ‘a year old to 41 years old’

Examples from around the web of RTL mistakes, mishaps, and general booboos.
This is glorious. A printed ticket in Israel, for an amusement park, seems to not understand bidirectionality at all, so in RTL, “14” becomes “41”. Continue reading “Children ‘a year old to 41 years old’” →
Plain-text SQL results give us an example of the pitfall of displaying multilingual user-generated content. We can learn from this about how to protect and support Bidirectionality when creating user interfaces and applications in general. Continue reading “The problem of displaying user-generated content in plaintext results (SQL example)” →
Apparently, Gmail on mobile could use some Bidirectional isolation when displaying email subject lines. Continue reading “RTL Booboo: Gmail on Android – Jumbled subject line” →