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In your iMessage screenshot, this character is being rendered in Noto Nastaliq Urdu[1], which is a font that uses the nastaliq flavor of the Arabic script (as c
by saadat 3mo ago
In your iMessage screenshot, this character is being rendered in Noto Nastaliq Urdu[1], which is a font that uses the nastaliq flavor of the Arabic script (as compared to the more widely used naskh flavor, which you're most probably seeing in Chrome's rendering).
What's curious to me is that Apple only uses Noto Nastaliq Urdu if Urdu is enabled in preferred languages and is higher than any other Arabic-script language. [2] Is that so on your machine?
[1] https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Nastaliq+Urdu?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&specimen.preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&preview.script=Arab&preview.lang=ur_Arab https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Nastaliq+Urdu?pr... (There's a slight difference in the placement of diacritics here because of a newer font version.)
[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/latin-fonts-correctly-mac-mchl14cc6599/mac#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20when%20Urdu%20is%20higher%20than%20Persian https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/latin-fonts-correct...
- ivanbakel 3mo agoIn some discussion about Arabic rendering on another website[0], it was pointed out that the Basmala is its own codepoint in part because it is (or was?) a legal requirement on Pakistani documents and comes from an Urdu character-set. It's possible that, as a character effectively originating from and used by Urdu speakers, Apple defaults it to Nastaliq regardless of your font settings. 0: https://lobste.rs/s/7s4sjp/u_fdfd_arabic_ligature_bismillah_ar https://lobste.rs/s/7s4sjp/u_fdfd_arabic_ligature_bismillah_...
- saadat 3mo agoAh! Or, it could be that out of all system fonts on MacOS, only Noto Nastaliq Urdu has a glyph for the bismillah, and thus the system uses it as a fallback...