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I'm not talking about standardizing the characters. I'm talking about naming, the structure of the entire identifier people use as their names: family name, giv
by cratermoon 3y ago
I'm not talking about standardizing the characters. I'm talking about naming, the structure of the entire identifier people use as their names: family name, given name, clan name, nickname, patronymic, and so forth.
Focusing on the characters is being stuck in the name-as-string: the exact problem I'm advocating we give up.
- cratermoon 3y agoIt's the difference between having only a basic typeface for Arabic and having software that can properly layout Arabic right-to-left, properly handle the variant letter forms, and generally formatting the text correctly. There's Arabic the core 28 letterforms and there's Arabic writing with proper initial, medial, and and final forms, collation, and presentation on the page.