Talk:Z10573

Failing for Odia (ISO 639: or) sentences

A popular palindrome in the Odia language — "ବଣିଆ କୁଟାଟାକୁ ଆଣିବ" — is failing when tested whereas a word "କଟକ" passed. Psubhashish (talk) 14:13, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

This is easy to understand. Odia is written in a (pseudo)syllabic script, also called an abugida. You consider this a palindrome because you and other Odias read the syllables the same in left-to-right as in right-or-left, but what the implementation does is to read the unicode characters. Odias read it "ba-ni-aa- -ku-taa-taa-ku- -aa-ni-ba", in colloquial romanisation (I think, I am not Odia), while the computer reads it "ba-na-i-aa- -ka-u-ta-aa-ta-aa-ka-u- -aa-na-i-ba". Maybe there should be a new function for interpreting Indic palindromes. BrightSunMan (talk) 19:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)