My Best Friends: Fathah, Kasrah, Dammah, and Shaddah
Confession: Whenever I was learning a new programming language, I would see how well it would deal with the Arabic language. Does it orient it correctly? Does it separate the letters? Does it reverse the word? Am I able to parse it correctly as if it were a string? Most of the time, the answer was a 'Noooooo.' I had to encode it such that it could handle the Arabic strings, and even then it was struggling to orient the words and connect the letters. For the most part, xcode is doing a fine job. Even though, the most challenging Arabic string is actually a label which was placed on the Nib file. I haven't actually had it compare Arabic strings. And frankly? I'm a little scared, mostly because of the main (note: main, not all) accents - fathah, kasrah, dammah, and shaddah. These particular accents are placed above a letter and I'm unsure as to how xcode would parse a string with accents on it. Does the accent count as it's own place holder? Half of one? Before or after the letter? Does it depend on how the word was entered? I am really curious about the answer, and I'll hopefully be able to present my findings soon enough!