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Is there any software you're aware of developed by Arabic-speaking developers we could be supporting (either financially by buying/using it, or socially by talking about it)?

Is Arabic writing more complicated than a straight line of letters? I ask because Korean writing is more complicated than that, and thus computers need to do tricky things to handle Korean writing.

Text goes right to left (a lot of software assumes left to right), characters change shape depending on the surrounding ones. Relatively easy at least for basic text (there are some scripts that are much worse about this), but it needs to be explicitly supported or it'll render wrong.

Korean is actually easier because Unicode has codepoints for every possible combination for Hangul and fonts just use that lol If you want to be clever you *can* try to exploit composing characters on the fly though (and save memory). At least it's feasible with Hangul, much harder with e.g. kanji.

a couple years back trying to mod minecraft, it kept crashing whenever any modded thing would spawn. turns out the problem was that the minecraft laucher was trying to read flilenames like "ZOMBIE" or "VILLAGER" as "zombıe" and "vıllager", using the turkish [Iı] instead of the english [Ii] (cont.)

thanks to another random turkish person on github trying to mod their own minecraft i found out that this was an issue with the official minecraft launcher that comes with the game. i used a third party alternative and everything just worked. i know how you feel lol