Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

Re:Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String by Manishearth on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:36PM (#16387885)

> Indic scripts go far beyond this by needing to treat entire consonant clusters as single rendered glyphs.

FWIW, Arabic does this too, just that most default Arabic fonts don't. https://www.google.com/get/noto/#nastaliq-aran contains a bunch of specialized ligatures (and is overall a very complicated font).

I always say: There's a reason a lot of the folks working on font shaping are Persian/Arabic speakers :)

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Re:Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String by jcranmer on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:43PM (#16387964)

I didn't know about Arabic having more ligatures than a few common ones (e.g., Allah).

That said, there's a reason that I want to learn Arabic.

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Re:Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String by Manishearth on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:22PM (#16388660)

Yeah, the common ones are lam-alif showing لا , and alif-lam-lam-heh showing الله .

But for example خ/ح/چ at the end of a word often form cool ligatures, and the dots on ب/پ/ت often go to interesting places, and سے forms a cool ligature where it uses the other form of the bari yeh and the س forms little teeth marks up top. (Some of these are Urdu-specific; I can read regular Arabic but I have more experience trying to read Urdu calligraphy)

Arabic calligraphy can be pretty involved.

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