Mark Jason Dominus: Deciphering basmalah

Making the rounds last week was this magnificent article on the complications of Arabic typesetting, . The author, Saleh, promises: The reply took and the closure of the ticket took half an hour or so. The reasons behind it took five hundred years to pile up, and they involve a twice-mutilated vizie…

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