Deciphering basmala
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Deciphering basmala
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Re: Deciphering basmala
#2﷽ It's pretty great fun pasting it into various text entry fields to see how they behave.
In standard-ish single-line-ish Apple text fields on my Mac (iMessage text entry field, Chrome Omnibox), it renders like this, which... I'm not sure is correct? https://cleanshot.com/share/0GkNJGQ7
On the other hand it renders akin to Chrome in TextEdit.
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#3I've been having fun getting better at understanding where the letters begin and end. Something like this is easy for me now:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-516170388361w7xlt8c...
Next I'm going to learn the rest of the letters and try to start reading menus.
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#4Arabic is a beautiful language.
Seeing Arabic calligraphy has made me add Arabic to the list of languages I am very slowly teaching myself.
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#5﷽ It's pretty great fun pasting it into various text entry fields to see how they behave. In standard-ish single-line-ish Apple text fields on my Mac (iMessage text entry field, Chrome Omnibox), it renders like this, which... I'm not sure is correct? https://cleanshot.com/share/0GkNJGQ7 On the other hand it renders akin to Chrome in TextEdit.
That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.
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#6This is my favourite single character to demonstrate that you cannot lay text out without knowing the font, which people sometimes try to claim is possible in terminals: in some fonts, it’s 10em wide and less than 1em tall, but in others, it’s under 3em wide and perhaps 2em tall.
(If people aren’t convinced by that, my next area is complex text layout, starting with my name in the Telugu script, https://temp.chrismorgan.info/క్రిస్.svg>, also augmenting that with how the r can be drawn to the left or underneath or even a little to the right of the k, which I really should add to that SVG file.)
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#7Arabic is so dense, and Quran came to perfect it.
Reading the following verse from Quran, makes me proud that I'm a native Arabic speaker:
"إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ"
"Indeed, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an that you might understand."
Quran 12:2
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#8It’s interesting to see an article to decipher the sentence when I know Arabic handwriting calligraphy in different fonts! The “bisme” itself btw is also a combination of two different words. And “kashida” is a persian word not Arabic, the Arabic one is probably “maddah”.
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#9﷽ It's pretty great fun pasting it into various text entry fields to see how they behave. In standard-ish single-line-ish Apple text fields on my Mac (iMessage text entry field, Chrome Omnibox), it renders like this, which... I'm not sure is correct? https://cleanshot.com/share/0GkNJGQ7 On the other hand it renders akin to Chrome in TextEdit.
That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.
Thank you for sharing! I wonder what distinguishes e.g. Omnibox/iMessage from TextEdit/Chrome textareas (especially since iMessage's entry box can be made multiline) to cause the divergent rendering!
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#10I started my software career maintaining and forking Unicode parsers. Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Thai among many other complex languages. It was great fun and it helped me get a deep understanding of how complex writing was and appreciate the beauty of being able to reduce this complexity down to data structures and functions.