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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Arabic and Persian on the Web and in eBooks.
Tracker issue for Section on Line Alignment. I have initial language here, please comment with suggestions and text to add. ---- More traditional line alignment: use of *ruler* (AR: *mastarah*,...
Section on Numerical Separators and their Bidi behavior to at least cover the basic expectations for separators, like HYPHEN and SOLIDUS, and how they behavior in LTR and RTL context,...
Some fonts don't display both the Hamza Bellow (a letter) and the Kasra **bellow it**. (a)  The Kasra is put above the Hamza. Bad. (b)  Even if you...
Western Arabic Numerals, encoded as ASCII digits, are the main numerals used in all West Arab regions. Table in Section A.3 Numeral characters is missing them and needs to be...
While working on , I realized that we never defined Abjad—the letter ordering and its numerical use. I want to introduce the script-overview level of it to Chapter 2, so...
We cover the basics for Arabic Diacritics in Chapter 2: https://w3c.github.io/alreq/#h_diacritics We need to expand the Encoding side of it better (user text input vs NFC?) and also mention the...
Background: https://twitter.com/zwnj/status/945661718746644481 Sometime in the late 20th century, most publications started showing any kind of flag in left-hoist mode. This was against the tradition of showing flags with RTL text...
@ntounsi describes some interesting behaviour that i will reproduce here: > `div` (or others block elements) default to isolate only in FF. Implementation problem. > Following the example in this...
As I was drafting my sections, some style-related questions came to my mind: - Should we show the characters in images from left to right or from right to left?...
A browser or application needs to correctly apply functions to the basic units of text, be they characters, character sequences, syllables, or words. We need to specify these for the...