Arabic shown incorrectly in the "inspect" tools

[abdilra7eem]

Arabic language is shown as squares/rectangles instead of letters in the inspect tools, including the:

Screenshots of the issue:

• View Source

• Inspect

• Task Manager

I tested with Arabic, but based on the behaviour this most-likely affects all languages that use the Arabic writing system, including: Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Kurdish, etc.

[bbb651]

This also happens with Hebrew (which is also RTL) although I suspect it's a missing font issue, it happens on some websites too and on others it renders like that while loading, I suspect the default fonts don't include those languages and they work only on websites with custom fonts that do. (side note, I'm impressed how well https://www.ynet.co.il/ works, it's very sluggish but the layout is pretty much perfect!)

[shlyakpavel]

Not reproducible on Mac as of e5436ce5935895e0d16be57261642f9313b94f15, with both Qt and AppKit Chromes

[AtkinsSJ]

On current master (bc971a4cccc4c0059f095a5b43578411ce2f178c) the arabic text is currently invisible for me in the dev tools.

I wonder if this is sensitive to system fonts. We might need to do something smarter with fallbacks.

[al04041]

its in the any web page too and its the same with another lang like chinese , japanese , burmese, punjabi, armenian , korean , bangala, georgian ,malayalam, thai , telugu , arabic

[shlyakpavel]

@al04041 what do you mean? Isn't inspector removed?

[al04041]

@shlyakpavel like this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1247070543136690270/1351659844469526588/2025-03-18-225323_hyprshot.png?ex=67db2ed3&is=67d9dd53&hm=e4194e8b50256e944794977ce08f9d3129f1b5a673a3859fe5f95a8d622b0904&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1053&height=592]

[shlyakpavel]

@al04041 that's not the inspector, hence unrelated to this issue

[al04041]

@shlyakpavel: I don't really know im just told this is the same issue so i'm posting this comment to say its not just in the inspector its in the normal page too