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by mohamedkoubaa 3 days ago
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...
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This was once attempted, and in a way such that each letter needed only one character no matter it's position in the word

Unfortunately it died

https://worksthatwork.com/6/unified-arabic

I actually like that they depend on position, it even carries semantic information when reading because of how conjugation works so it actually helps you read faster