>that would rather insult a tenth of the human population than actually pay to have someone who knows the language look at it. I am unsurprised that a website

>that would rather insult a tenth of the human population than actually pay to have someone who knows the language look at it. I am unsurprised that a website by Rami Ismail uses collective offense-taking as its frame, and uses it to try shaming companies into giving money to non-westerners or adjacent. It's not automatically insulting to misrender arabic, any more than it is insulting to read hilariously mis/autotranslated "chinglish" in China, or see comically offensive English tshirt slogans in Japan. Depending on context it could even be an attempt at being _nice_ that just misfired. A simpler explanation and frame is that text rendering is tough enough as it is, and a solution that works perfectly fine for one market won't scale to everywhere. Arabic in particular is very hard, not just because of ligatures, but because right-to-left text is actually bidirectional in practice. They might've even asked an Arabic speaker to review, but it may have looked okay right until the very last step in the production pipeline, when it got mangled.