Now, I am not claiming a lack of text support caused a genocide, and I don’t think Wynn-Williams is either. Facebook was certainly culpable though, the military had direct controls over what was allowed to be posted and suppressed dissent. The issue could have been caught much earlier on and perhaps mitigated had off-shore moderation teams been able to read posts that were being flagged.
Careless People is a story about Facebook from inside Facebook, so of course it adopts the viewpoint that Facebook's moderation decisions are very important, but ultimately they were a sideshow to what was playing out on the ground. This goes double for military attacks on Rohingya villages, which can hardly be explained as spontaneous reactions to some Facebook post.
In any case, Facebook moderators literate in Burmese would've known to use the right font, whereas for Facebook moderators trying to deal with a language they can't even read, the font choice would be the least of their problems.
And so, the standards of moderation will be increasingly more inconsistent and chaotic as cultural distances between the company HQ in US to the poster of a particular content increases - I see people complaining about food pics getting flagged as pornography in Japanese all the time.
I can't imagine how random the moderation infra will respond to: anti-Muslim propaganda briefs created by violent fundamentalist Buddhism terrorism groups circulated in the minority inhabited contested forested border areas of Myanmar. That description alone sounds Neuromancer enough to that the system might just fail open, before it digests the content and likewise fail open.
Facebook pages and posts espousing these viewpoints (using sensationalized or completely fictional justifications) were then amplified by the algorithm. The amplification reached people that were not otherwise inclined to participate, but were convinced through information they received online.
You can't have one without the other. Influence is driven through both in-person physical events/marketing and online platforms. Categorizing the online influence as a "sideshow" completely misinterprets how important online communities have become in radicalization. "Reach" is a key social media metric for a reason.
> Even before internet access became widely available in Myanmar, Facebook was already the dominant platform in the country.
> In 2011, despite widespread restrictions on internet access, it was estimated that approximately 80% of Myanmar's few internet users had Facebook accounts.
> By 2014, Facebook was estimated to have had hundreds of thousands of users in Myanmar, many of whom were accessing the platform through internet cafes or devices belonging to their friends or family members.
> Prior to 2015, Facebook was only available in Myanmar via an English-language interface, but a specific Myanmar version was launched in 2015.
> Relishing his extremist reputation, Wirathu describes himself as the "Burmese bin Laden."
Wirathu is clearly a sociopath -- and the furthest thing from a real Buddhist. If only people weren't so easily led by those who use religion as a means of control....
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-f...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
Georgian does have a well-defined notion of ‘syllable’, it’s just that it allows an unusually wide range of consonant clusters in those syllables [0]. If you want a language which really doesn’t care about syllables there are better examples, e.g. Gokana [1,2]
[0] https://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/063_fulltext.pdf
[1] https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~hyman/papers/2011-hyman-go...
[2] https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~hyman/papers/2015-hyman-go...
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Yes writing English words in a different script is fun.
#include <iostream> using namespace std;
There are some mistakes though, like using ウ instead of ク in インウルード
Presumably this reflects a shift from courtly scribe closed-door literacy toward more popular literacy specifically including temple-trained monks who presumably could not have afforded either stonemasons or metal plates for general use.
Huh, learned something new : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
Noto actually has a specific math font... I wonder if that would work? https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Math
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Edit: Just to share what I learned after looking into this a bit...
TLDR: No single font can display every character. OpenType fonts are capped at 65535 glyphs (the vector or bitmap shape to render), but Unicode has 150k+ defined characters. Noto itself is not one single font but a collection of them, at least one font per script (where each script might support several natural languages that share the same written characters). CSS's `font-family` fallback and `unicode-range` mechanisms allow us to define "which font should be used for which ranges (and thus which scripts)". We can mix and match several Noto fonts like this to support multiple scripts & languages together. This mechanism should also allow us to display extended math symbols via the separate Noto Sans Math font.
Here's some tategaki lyrics I wrote as an example:
https://codepen.io/kingcharlesone/pen/abgdPgZ
And if you want a really crazy (worst case) localization test, here's tategaki which includes English, Arabic, Hindi and some math:
https://codepen.io/kingcharlesone/pen/jEPNRLP
1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...