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A Twitter Client
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Irony point in a tweet displays it to right-aligned #398

Open progval opened 12 years ago

progval commented 12 years ago

Hi,

When I write a tweet containing the "؟" character (irony point / French point d'ironie), the tweet is displayed right-aligned.

Tested only in Hotot for Chromium.

Regards

johanv commented 12 years ago

Hotot displays any tweet with this character right-aligned, no matter whether the tweet was posted from Hotot or from somewhere else.

anubeon commented 11 years ago

I think that you may be using the wrong character. My guess would be that you're using an Arabic question mark (U+061F), whereas you should be using a reversed question mark (U+2E2E). I could be wrong, but that would explain the switch to RTL input.

P.S.: It's also acceptable to use an inverted exclamation mark (U+00A1) to denote irony. In this context it's referred to as the Temherte slaqî, and is used in Ethiopian to denote irony. Personally, I prefer to use the reverse question mark to denote a rhetorical question, and this Temherte slaqî to denote irony. Of course, I've added them all to a custom .XCompose file in ~/.

Arabic question mark: ؟ (U+061F) Reverse question mark: ⸮ (U+2E2E) Inverted exclamation mark: ¡ (U+00A1)