i18n

Two Thai text lines rendered with NotoSansThai-Bold: the first ends with a tofu box where the Latin exclamation mark should be; the second, using only Thai characters and Thai digits, renders cleanly.

Noto’s per-script fonts ship without Basic Latin — a Thai ‘!’ renders as tofu, and fontTools’ cmap catches it before your eyes do

jerome / 30 août 2026

NotoSansThai and NotoSansHebrew cover only their script: no ‘!’, no digits, no ellipsis. Check cmap coverage with fontTools before batch rendering.

The same statistics card in Arabic. On the left, with layout direction unchanged, the labels and values crowd into the middle and the left half of the card is empty. On the right, with the layout direction mirrored, labels sit on the right and values on the left.

Android

Modifier.absoluteOffset is only half an RTL fix — Box alignment flips too, and the children leave the screen

jerome / 27 août 2026

absoluteOffset stops the offset mirroring but not the Box start edge moving. Pin the whole subtree to Ltr instead.

Resource resolution paths: a values-id folder produces config "id", the runtime asks for canonicalized "in", no match, fallback to default. A values-in folder produces config "in", which matches.

Android

Android never loads values-id — Indonesian resources must live in values-in

jerome / 18 août 2026

A res/values-id folder builds without warning, ships in the APK, and is never matched at runtime. Indonesian users silently get your default language.