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Numbers below 100 are always read from right to left even in vernacular/informal/dialectical Arabic.

There is no unjoined form of Arabic. The Arabic script became Arabic when Nabataean script started developing joined letter forms. Unjoined Nabatean is as foreign to Arabic as Phoe…

> I don't think it generates better results It does if one is doing typesetting math-heavy documents. Nothing really matches TeX quality or flexibility in math typesetting, not eve…

> And unicode is an evolving standard where this normalisation sometimes changes between standards Unicode normalization is subject to its stability policy, and Unicode no longer a…

One reason that comes to mind, is to make sure no extra text is inserted in the empty space e.g. after a contract is signed.

In some countries, legal documents are required to not have any paragraph breaks, so you can have a document with one paragraph spanning 100s of pages. OpenOffice has a hard limit …

The fix looks like a 5 line fix because it is a last step in a very long process of optimizing LibreOffice text layout that started years ago. This 5 line fix could not have been p…

This is still not rasterization, but a way to modify glyph outlines on the fly. How they are rasterized eventually should be mostly unchanged.

For some weird reason, printing defaulted to printing only selected text, but this is finally fixed https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139164

In Arabic, Mercury (planet) and mercury (element) are two different words (عطارد and زئبق), here the machine translation is using the wrong mercury for the context.

Photoshop relatively recently consolidated its text layout into a single layout engine (based on HarfBuzz) and Arabic support no longer an opt-in (which was the source of the troub…

That is not the point I’m making, rather a single person is responsible for how most of software render text in most of the world writing systems and no one is wondering how 6 bill…

There is 99% chance the software you are reading text on right now uses HarfBuzz to lay out the text, a library written mainly by a Persian person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha…

Font usage on the web, 2022 edition.

Reem Kufi designer here, that is the original form of ع in Arabic and the only form used in manuscript Kufi. Kufi-inspired typefaces often use the more familiar form from later cal…

FWIW, libharfbuzz has no hard dependencies at all and it is fully functional when built with all optional dependencies disabled.