[fimdomeio]

I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicode standard, so submited the proposal for change. Probably there's dozen of people involved in this... but seeing it being changed brought me great joy.

I was a tiny part in changing a tiny mostly irrelevant detail that was causing a slight inconvenience to millions of people daily. Improving humanity one bit at a time...

[jackpirate]

Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.

[fimdomeio]

Started as a firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275

Then moved to unicode CLDR: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106

[exikyut]

FWIW searching https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ for "magic" finds a bunch of posts that might also fit with that topic.

(The rest of the posts are an interesting rabbithole if you're not aware, apologies in advance)

[paulschreiber]

I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+...

It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797

It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.

[O_H_E]

Well, that's going to be a very cool class I best !

[pc86]

This is great! Imagine how many people had no idea how to get something like that fixed yet noticed the bug.