{"id":563,"date":"2008-04-22T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/better-dot-those-is-and-cross-those-ts\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:34:39","slug":"better-dot-those-is-and-cross-those-ts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/better-dot-those-is-and-cross-those-ts\/","title":{"rendered":"Better dot those i&#8217;s and cross those t&#8217;s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/turkcell.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish cellphone store\" class=\"right\" width=\"200\" \/>Why? Well consider the case of Emine and Ramazan \u00c7al\u00e7oban. Theirs was a fatal love affair. But it was hardly <em>Romeo and Juliet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning all was sunbeams and roses for this young Turkish couple. But then things started to go bad, and get worse, and finally they separated. A flurry of e-mail incriminations followed, and finally Ramazan in frustration complained to Emine, &#8220;You change the topic every time you run out of arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Emine&#8217;s cellphone didn&#8217;t have available the dotless i character that was needed to properly read Ramazan&#8217;s <em>s<sub>&#8216;<\/sub>k<sub>&#8216;<\/sub>s<sub>&#8216;<\/sub>nca<\/em>(run out of arguments); instead, she read the word in his message as <em>sikisince, <\/em>forming the sentence &#8220;You change the topic every time they fuck you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the message Emine showed to her father, who immediately called Ramazan and accused him of calling his daughter a prostitute. When Ramazan hurried over to apologize, he met an entire family armed with sharpened knives. Ramazan was seriously wounded, but he struck back, killing Emine; later, he committed suicide in jail.<\/p>\n<p>See, typography matters.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/382026\/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail\" title=\"gizmodo: localization problems\" target=\"_blank\"><em>via Gizmodo<br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><em>(image borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailblogs.com\/member\/gonenative\/?xjMsgID=35091\" title=\"sailblogs\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>)<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/382026\/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail\" title=\"gizmodo: localization problems\" target=\"_blank\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Well consider the case of Emine and Ramazan \u00c7al\u00e7oban. Theirs was a fatal love affair. But it was hardly Romeo and Juliet. In the beginning all was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[39,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}