Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

Arabic typography has been a challenge for a thousand years. According to io9, typographers and software engineers have spent centuries piling workaround upon workaround, trying to get Arabic text to render correctly in print and on screens. Now one developer appears to have given up entirely—marking a critical issue as 'will not fix.'

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