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Is Eve's I18n support really this incomplete after 10 years?
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Tarunik Raqalth'Qui
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Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-03-05 14:35:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarunik Raqalth'Qui
Not a particularly high priority issue (aka something to put on the 'rainy day issues list' :), but if you copy and paste a string with a Unicode RTL override marker followed by some ordinary (ASCII) characters into the Eve chatbox, it shows up backwards. Instead of 'dcba' for '{invisible RTL mark}abcd' you get '{box}abcd'. This can also be reproduced with Arabic or Hebrew text (if you read & write those languages, then you just might know what I mean :).

Furthermore, the Eve text-rendering code renders UTF-16 surrogate pairs as 2 separate glyphs (boxes), instead of as a single glyph corresponding to a non-BMP Unicode codepoint.

P.S. How do I turn an issue that's this frankly relatively obscure into a comprehensible bug report for the bughunter team? (Especially the part about surrogate pairs, since non-BMP codepoints aren't supported by the Windows character map AFAIK.)