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Crazy how there’s “two billion people” who can read Arabic and seemingly 0 of them are making serious contributions to Arabic text rendering except this one specific guy. Weird.
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/HarfBuzz
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…
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a5/dc/27/34d036c...
I wrote a note in GMail the other day where I needed a Latin phrase. For accuracy I pasted it from the web page where I found the original. It screwed up the “x height” of the text that followed. And offended my sense of correct typesetting. I had to do the paste via third app maneuver to get my email right. So this is just QoI between two European-biased applications using two European languages that use the same ba…
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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/HarfBuzz
I believe that’s the specific guy that was referenced.
I wrote a note in GMail the other day where I needed a Latin phrase. For accuracy I pasted it from the web page where I found the original. It screwed up the “x height” of the text that followed. And offended my sense of correct typesetting. I had to do the paste via third app maneuver to get my email right. So this is just QoI between two European-biased applications using two European languages that use the same ba…
Hold shift while pasting (chrome) to paste the text only, no formatting.
Probably a good place to ask: I want to add an arabic translation to a webpage I operate. My text editor is a bit confused by the unicode symbols. Obviously the text editor displays left-to-right no matter what as it's made for programming. What's the right way to handle this?
> Photoshop breaks Arabic. We even have a website that will break our Arabic so that Photoshop breaks it back to normal. Yes, Adobe is aware. No, they do not care. Photoshop since time immemorial had a Middle East edition (ME) which supported RTL and used to curb piracy I don’t know how it’s with their new pseudo-sass but I think they integrated it into their main product
https://helpx.adobe.com/lv/photoshop/using/unified-text-engi...
I encountered a (sort of) similar problem while rendering Devanagari text and wouldn't have realised If I couldn't read the text https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44254171/devanagari-text...
Probably a good place to ask: I want to add an arabic translation to a webpage I operate. My text editor is a bit confused by the unicode symbols. Obviously the text editor displays left-to-right no matter what as it's made for programming. What's the right way to handle this?
I recommend using gedit for this use case (available for linux and mac) it has the best support for arabic, right to left script and bidi (that's mixing rtl and ltr in the same sentence) I've ever seen