Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates
Osan@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoRTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates
Osan@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoRTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
Osan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, I read the original comment backwards.