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Hebrew names rendered incorrectly

Michael Safyan

March 14, 2023 15:19

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Because Hebrew is a right-to-left language, it should look like:

  Hebrew: <LastName> <MiddleName> <FirstName>

... however, the page is showing it out of order. For example, my profile shows the following text:

   Hebrew: מְנַחֵם‎ אַהֲרֹן ספין

... but it should be:

   Hebrew: מנחם אהרן ספין

... based on the fields that I (correctly) entered. I'm guessing this is some bug related to how these fields are being combined or some kind of bug in how Geni is using Unicode and RTL / bidi chars? Is it possible for Geni to fix this to render the information correctly?

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  Job Waterreus March 14, 2023 21:25

  You can change the translation, see https://www.geni.com/tr8n/phrases?page=1&phrase_lock=any&phrase_status=any&phrase_type=any&search=&section_key=&source= (set the  language to Hebrew)

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  Geni Support Team March 14, 2023 23:38

  Hi Michael, can you confirm if you are referring to the name in Hebrew that appears below your name when your site language is set to English?

  If you switch your site language to Hebrew, is the order correct?

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  Michael Safyan March 15, 2023 14:33

  This is not a translation.

  I have my Hebrew name(s) added to the profile.

  I am viewing as normal in English. Based on the Chrome network debugging console, the value of the "accept-language" header is "en-US,en;q=0.9,he-IL;q=0.8,he;q=0.7", though I would expect the rendering of this information to not be dependent on the language.

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  Michael Safyan March 15, 2023 14:33

  Here is a screenshot of my edit page, which shows what I have entered:

  

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  Michael Safyan March 15, 2023 14:33

  And here is how it is currently displaying:

  

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  Michael Safyan March 15, 2023 14:35

  I was kind of hoping/expecting that the "Display Name" would be what shows (because it does not, I added a separate "Hebrew Name" custom fact). Given that the First/Middle/Last in Hebrew are being renedered, instead of "Display Name", I would at least expect that this information would be rendered in the correct order.

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  Geni Support Team March 15, 2023 18:34

  Thanks for confirming that your site language was set to English. We have forwarded this to our engineers and will let you know once we have an update.

  Just for clarification, our translation engine allows for translators to specify the format of names per language. It seems the order isn't working for the multilingual names when the site language is set to English.

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  Geni Support Team March 22, 2023 21:06

  Hi Michael, this should be fixed now.