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Arabic strings are not "naughty" for arabic websites #216

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MohammedRashad opened this issue May 26, 2020 · 3 comments
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Arabic strings are not "naughty" for arabic websites #216

MohammedRashad opened this issue May 26, 2020 · 3 comments

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@MohammedRashad
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I saw that the list has Arabic text, why is this considered "naughty" ?
for example all social media and most programming languages support utf-8 strings, which include Arabic.

@FlyingBlueMonkey
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FlyingBlueMonkey commented May 26, 2020

I believe this is covered in the readme: "

The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated and manual QA testing;

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in other words, these are strings to ensure that applications handle the strings / layouts correctly when using them. As is commented in the file itself:

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Right-To-Left Strings
Strings which contain text that should be rendered RTL if possible (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew)
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@ssokolow
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See, for example, Lord i/o's Text Editing Hates You Too. It touches on mixing LTR and RTL text.

@MohammedRashad
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@FlyingBlueMonkey
Makes sense now, but I think this we should break the current list to more specific lists, what do you think?

@ssokolow
I'm checking the lord.io blog post.
Thanks for the addition.

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