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Very cool that you have the site translated in Nahuatl! Was the translator a native speaker? If so, of which variety?


As far as I know, his family did speak it never passed it on, so he learn it afterwards. So semi-native, I guess. The variant is a central one, relatively close to the variant that would have been spoken by the Mexica.



Hope it stretches to installing a TeX distribution that properly supports Unicode ...


Does it support Arabic/Devanagari and not do crazy things with BiDi? If so I'm sold!


It looks like it uses Qt under the hood, so it likely leverages it. Haven't tried yet though.


Hey, we are using Qt only on the pure frontend GUI side. The rendering itself is using FreeType + HarfBuzz independantly of the GUI.

We chose this model explicitly to still be free to replace Qt with something else in the future - iff we have to. The reason behind that decision is, that we actually started with GLFW3, and epically failed, because GLFW3's input model was inferior and the API that I needed was actually marked deprecated by the GLFW3 devs and they also stated that their input model is not good and needs a rework. That led me to the decision to look around and find something else. I only wanted to keep the GUI framework dependency as minimal as possible.

We sadly do not have BiDi support just yet, I'd actually love to have that. So far I only know of 2 terminals capable of this: mlterm and gnome-terminal. Unfortunatily I lag the skills of hacking this in except doing it naively. I'd be more than happy for external contributors knowledgable enough in the domain of BiDi, to help us out here. :)


do you think mlterm is slow?


I've not used it, is it good?


Not that commenter, but I also use mlterm and have for years, even though I don't normally use BIDI or other ‘exotic’ language capabilities. It is just a terminal, in the do-one-thing-well sense. Its downside is its somewhat idiosyncratic configuration (although there is now a GUI for most of it, so newer users might not notice).


it's the best





Wow djb was on his committee, cool.


DJB is widely thought to be the entire reason he was in the program at all.


>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

I didn’t know who this was, others probably too.


Maybe not cool. There’s discussion in many places, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891900 for background.


Yeah, this is insane e.g. I've seen cents/fl.oz, dollars/litre, cents/ml, dollars/unit. For the same product. And yes, totally malicious. Fresh Thyme does this. It's ugly.


Paying vehicle tax/registration at the Indiana BMV online is still easy and convenient. They even have a cute spinner of a car driving down a road... And no surprise extra charges.


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