Comment by JxLS-cpgbe0
5 years ago
What dang said about it was not smart.
> it's good for readers to have to work a little
Unless they're using assistive technologies. In that case it's a nightmare. Don't make your users work.
> it's not hard for any HN reader to do the bit of work to figure it out
Unless they're using assistive technologies. Or just want to read it without work.
Or, say searching for it. This post comes up. The one you linked to doesn't.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Respect to you for wanting to honor Greece. I think using the letters* correctly would honor them more. (thanks for the correction)
> I think using Cyrillic correctly would honor them more.
(Greece doesn't use Cyrillic but I agree with you otherwise)
Yes. My screen reader, at least Voiceover on my phone, had a stroke reading that. I had to navigate letter by letter and guess what it meant. But it's also quite common so I'm used to doing that regardless.