Rendering Arabic script (opens in new tab)

"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 ... I wrote a reply explaining, more or less honestly, that the problem was not a bug in our stylesheet but the . The reply took and the closure of the ticket took half an hour or so. The reasons behind it took five ...