[tekacs]

﷽ <- the single codepoint the author is talking about.

It's pretty great fun pasting it into various text entry fields to see how they behave.

In standard-ish single-line-ish Apple text fields on my Mac (iMessage text entry field, Chrome Omnibox), it renders like this, which... I'm not sure is correct? https://cleanshot.com/share/0GkNJGQ7

On the other hand it renders akin to Chrome in TextEdit.

[girvo]

The Super-R run-command dialog on Windows, and Notepad make it look crazy

[Centigonal]

That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.

[tekacs]

Thank you for sharing! I wonder what distinguishes e.g. Omnibox/iMessage from TextEdit/Chrome textareas (especially since iMessage's entry box can be made multiline) to cause the divergent rendering!

[slim]

it really is the same four words written in a different calligraphy and arranged in a different way (more horizontally). arabic calligraphy can take liberties with orientation of text and even arrangement of letters. the name of the game is make deciphering it a puzzle, but easy enough for the reader to have fun and not get bored.