Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly
How a millennium of kludges and workarounds led to one man's "will not fix."
By Tom Hawking
Books about Arabic literature at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/12563
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The top line appears to contain one character already encoded in Unicode:
Code Point: U+FDFD
Name: ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM
General Category: Other_Symbol
Block: Arabic Presentation Forms-A
Age: Unicode 4.0 (April 2003)
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@schtobia thanks for sharing!