very interesting, arabic is a good reminder that text rendering is mostly solved for the scripts that shaped the defaults.

The hard part is that typography, shaping, bidi behavior, font fallback, search, and the editor model all leak into each other.

You cannot fix one layer cleanly when the assumptions are wrong in all of them.

A more academic treatment of justifying Arabic-script text can be found in https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0023.104?view=text;...

the entire article has llm tells all over it. i read it anyway, and i'm grateful for all the facts i learned (although i cannot trust all of them, for reasons aforementioned), but i genuinely (!) think it's a shame because the topic is an absolutely fascinating one

(i will permit myself to not explain in excruciating detail why i feel that way about this, as we have this discussion several times a day on this site)

I'd like to see some more mainstream usage of disconnected fonts for Arabic, for example like these: https://www.arabaddigital.com/en/article/2100-Quarantining-o...