Deciphering Basmala

(blog.plover.com)

17 points | by lordgrenville 4 days ago

3 comments

  • tekacs 47 minutes ago
    ﷽ <- the single codepoint the author is talking about.

    It's pretty great fun pasting it into various text entry fields to see how they behave.

    In standard-ish single-line-ish Apple text fields on my Mac (iMessage text entry field, Chrome Omnibox), it renders like this, which... I'm not sure is correct? https://cleanshot.com/share/0GkNJGQ7

    On the other hand it renders akin to Chrome in TextEdit.

    • Centigonal 20 minutes ago
      That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.
  • mjd 24 minutes ago
    I've been having fun getting better at understanding where the letters begin and end. Something like this is easy for me now:

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-516170388361w7xlt8c...

    Next I'm going to learn the rest of the letters and try to start reading menus.

  • Alien1Being 23 minutes ago
    Arabic is a beautiful language.

    Seeing Arabic calligraphy has made me add Arabic to the list of languages I am very slowly teaching myself.