Glyph on Nostr: Today in "how do normal people use computers": the mac "Contacts" app inserts the ...
Today in "how do normal people use computers": the mac "Contacts" app inserts the unicode characters "LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE" and "POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING" at the beginning & end of any phone number you copy.
It also places these characters *into* the field during editing, so you can navigate your cursor before/after the invisible control characters in the text field, making it so you have to e.g. hit the right arrow twice to move the cursor if you've placed it at the beginning of the field
It also places these characters *into* the field during editing, so you can navigate your cursor before/after the invisible control characters in the text field, making it so you have to e.g. hit the right arrow twice to move the cursor if you've placed it at the beginning of the field