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Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by inkcapmushroom »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #99
SamBam wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually thought that part was perfectly clear. > 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 n…

A group of flying kookaburras flap about a body of liquid. In this group, individuals distinguish from distinct sorts. Small, big, colorful or plain, all flap wings as a way to maintain afloat. It's a sight to watch as this group zips, zooms, and turns all around. It's a natural habitat for this flying squad, and you can find it in many spots around our world. This group adds to our natural world's charm and, through…

The 'e' is in your username. :)

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by IncRnd »

zakki wrote: post #136
jcranmer wrote: post #75

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Egypt has ~100 million people, the vast majority of whom are going to be native Arabic speakers. Algeria, Sudan, and Iraq also have ~40 million people each, again, most of whom are native Arabic speakers (of different varieties). Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen are no slouches either. In short 300 million native speakers of various Arabic languages is extremely plausible. FWIW, the usual estimate for worldwide adher…

PEW Research and Wikipedia estimate are 1.9B. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/01/27/the-future-o... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country

Those estimates are not for Arabic readers or speakers. They are for Muslims or followers of Islam.

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by aprilnya »

throwbadubadu wrote: post #153

Nice to have some smoke tests, but wondering about minor details in the first things always undermines credibility for me quickly: > The text is rendered left-to-right, instead of right-to-left. siht ekil daer ot gnivah ekil s'tI! But the text (the arabic one) is not rendered in different direction bad vs good version? So this is just alignment? I can understand this still is very annoying and triggering, but not as…

The image at the top only talks about alignment, the point you quoted is separate from that and talks about when it’s actually rendered reversed which does happen

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by aprilnya »

oefnak wrote: post #104
cardiffspaceman wrote: post #103

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.

Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting works almost everywhere, not just Chrome

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by Narishma »

throwbadubadu wrote: post #153

Nice to have some smoke tests, but wondering about minor details in the first things always undermines credibility for me quickly: > The text is rendered left-to-right, instead of right-to-left. siht ekil daer ot gnivah ekil s'tI! But the text (the arabic one) is not rendered in different direction bad vs good version? So this is just alignment? I can understand this still is very annoying and triggering, but not as…

What text are you talking about?

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by LanceH »

amir wrote: post #191
LanceH wrote: post #85

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Farsi has the letter "p" which Arabic does not. That letter has three dots on top (sometimes drawn like ^. I think there may be another. Arabic only has the "sh" sound with the three dots. Trying to read Farsi, it feels like I should know what's going on but am left with the feeling that I've forgotten all my Arabic. Then I'll see some of the bonus letters.

"p" has three dots beneath it (پ), three dots on top is "s" (ث).

Thanks, thought it was 3 dots on the Arabic "b". It really doesn't take long until you Farsi tries to sneak in some extra letters to figure out it's not Arabic.

Looking back on it, I remember feeling like I can't remember Arabic, but part of it is that this also happens during that time when I'm getting used to the script. There is always an adjustment period with every new font/handwriting that takes a sentence or two to sort out the style before I truly start reading.

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by djrockstar1 »

aprilnya wrote: post #245
oefnak wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hold shift while pasting (chrome) to paste the text only, no formatting.

Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting works almost everywhere, not just Chrome

Except Microsoft Word, which for some god forsaken reason demands you do Ctrl+V, Ctrl, T.

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by IIAOPSW »

slim wrote: post #86
IIAOPSW wrote: post #9

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…

never seen one. my guess is it does not exist. it would make a great artistic project

based on the time stamp, you spoke almost exactly too soon. See alphabet9000s reply above yours.

Re: Help! Is This Arabic?

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Post by lelandfe »

disintegrator wrote: post #213

Tangentially, for those doing web development, CSS has a bunch of "logical" properties [1] that adapt to the locale of the user agent. For example, you can swap out `margin-left` and `margin-bottom` in your CSS with `margin-inline-start` and `margin-block-end` respectively. Similarly, `text-align` accepts start/end instead of left/right. Even if you're not targetting right-to-left or top-to-bottom locales, it's easy…

Do "top-to-bottom locales" exist? Has anyone built a site with users that get utility out of these?

I've usually found that the arguments for these properties revolve around, "well, what if I decide to use traditional Mongolian in the future?," which seems like the biggest case of YAGNI I can think of. I suspect their popularity is owed to tutorial authors showing off their CSS prowess.

(I'm also not convinced of the need to flip sizing values for RTL/LTR, but that's at least useful)

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