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> for example Farsi in Egypt (Egyptians primarily speak an Egyptian Dialect of Arabic)
Update: My mistake, as pointed out here, I misunderstood the point initially.
This website is well-meaning, but will be difficult to parse if you don't have elementary Arabic and can't tell apart ال from ل ا. What it really needs is a simple reference input string, examples of how it gets broken, and what to do to fix them. The middle case, where the sentence is correctly rendered RTL but the individual words are LTR (breaking the ligatures), is particularly common and insidious because it loo…
> In general, the letter combination ال should be common.
So if your text has more than a few words, you should be able to look though your text and see that somewhere.
I can't read Arabic but I can recognize that pattern. I went to https://www.bbc.com/arabic and could find numerous occurrences.
It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English."
> for example Farsi in Egypt (Egyptians primarily speak an Egyptian Dialect of Arabic) Nit picking here maybe, but neither Farsi (Persian) is a dialect of Arabic (not even in the same family of languages) nor Egyptians speak it typically. Although, they speak a dialect of Arabic. Update: My mistake, as pointed out here, I misunderstood the point initially.
This website is well-meaning, but will be difficult to parse if you don't have elementary Arabic and can't tell apart ال from ل ا. What it really needs is a simple reference input string, examples of how it gets broken, and what to do to fix them. The middle case, where the sentence is correctly rendered RTL but the individual words are LTR (breaking the ligatures), is particularly common and insidious because it loo…
naive question. Is there an arabic equiv of a 7 segment display? It looks like a writing system that is very amenable to that sort of digitization. Always a center line, and then up to two strokes going {up, down, diagonal, curved} intersecting at the {left, middle right} of the main line, followed by some dots to further specify a sub-category. Seems like a small finite set of graphical components being composed tog…
A 7 segment display would have nowhere close to enough resolution to properly render Arabic script. Digital signage would at least be using a low-resolution LED matrix but more likely you'd see LED/LCD displays in places that are affluent and plain analog signage where they are not.
The question should be more precise. Is this Arabic script? There's a half dozen languages at least that are not Arabic but use Arabic script, such as Persian or Urdu. The typographic rules mentioned still apply though.
> for example Farsi in Egypt (Egyptians primarily speak an Egyptian Dialect of Arabic) Nit picking here maybe, but neither Farsi (Persian) is a dialect of Arabic (not even in the same family of languages) nor Egyptians speak it typically. Although, they speak a dialect of Arabic. Update: My mistake, as pointed out here, I misunderstood the point initially.
What's the right way to handle this?
This website is well-meaning, but will be difficult to parse if you don't have elementary Arabic and can't tell apart ال from ل ا. What it really needs is a simple reference input string, examples of how it gets broken, and what to do to fix them. The middle case, where the sentence is correctly rendered RTL but the individual words are LTR (breaking the ligatures), is particularly common and insidious because it loo…
Who can’t tell these two character sequences from each other? Genuine question.
I think the main point the author is making is, if you are including Arabic script somewhere, take a bit of time to either do it right or hire someone to do it right for you.
Actually, yes. Yes I do.
Try having to work in documents that trade text in multiple languages between Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Office. Add in some opinions from iOS, and I end up pasting text into a blank ASCII file just to get it back to basics so I can send it to the next program because neither Microsoft nor Adobe can reliably handle the macOS standard Command-Shift-V to paste text unformatted.
I can't imagine the disaster that would await me if i also has to do it in Arabic.