The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

vita nouvahome·diary·blog·microblog·topics·graph·search bibliography·anthology·music·guestbook·lately·cosmographyJun 10, 2026¶※ ※ ※An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debtThis post was discussed in Lobsters and HackerNewsOnce upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on