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Unreadable. Arabic has a strong difference between letters of the same word, and different words. There is no exact equivalent in English... b&u&t&i&t&m&i&g&h

• usrusr 8y ago
  If that example is representative, I'd definitely put it in the "readable" bin. Leaps and bounds from what you'd want to read, but infinitely more useful than a sequence of identical placeholders. Even just being able to tell wether two strings might be identical or not would be an improvement over blank placeholders.
• svat 8y ago
  There's also complex text layout (vowel-sign reordering) for Indic scripts, where some (not all) vowel signs require repositioning from phonetic order to visual order. Adding just that aspect to your example (without other complications like positioning of matras or conjunct consonant glyphs) makes it something closer to: b&t&u&t&i&m&g&h&t&i&b&s&e&m&o&t&e&h&n&g&i&l&k&i&t&e&h&s&i