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Great article. Whenever you dive into internationalization things are far more complicated than you would expect (as is with almost every subject). The article
by fjfaase 6y ago
Great article. Whenever you dive into internationalization things are far more complicated than you would expect (as is with almost every subject). The article does not mention that Arabic (and similar scripts) use kashida for text justification, which is a means of stretching certain characters/glyphs in the text, instead of 'stretching' white space. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida
- raphlinus 6y agoYeah, I didn't get much into justification, or that deeply into language-specific requirements. For Arabic, a good resource is https://www.w3.org/TR/alreq/ https://www.w3.org/TR/alreq/ and it goes into considerable detail on kashida among other issues. Maybe I should add a block that has references to these documents, as they're a great resource.