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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
by 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 agoI'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.)