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Randomly truncating words can have the same effect in any language. It's outright trivial to find examples in English or German. I don't understand why one has

• asabil 2y ago
  Yes, but you don’t end up with different glyphs. Arabic script has letter shaping, that means a letter can have up to 4 shapes based on its position within the word. If you chop off the last letter, the previous one which used to have a “middle” position shape suddenly changes into “terminal” position shape.
  • CRConrad 2y ago
    I'm thinking even bog-standard European umlauts, cedillas, etc go multi-byte in Unicode? (Take a string of ÅÄÖåäöÜü and chop it off at various byte limits and see.)
    • panzi 2y ago
      I don't remember the details, only that it was a bigger deal than with umlauts. I'll see if I can find the talk again.
    • gmueckl 2y ago
      This is just the general behavior of truncating strings by code point when they contain decomposed glyphs. This can also impact accents etc.