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The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

ve introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt This post was discussed in Lobsters Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the customer-facing dashboard was rendering with a ragged left edge (the rag falls on the left in Arabic, since the lines set out from the right margin; the ticket said "ragged right") when the design team had explicitly specified justified text.

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