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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 17:45:13)
@chjara This is a pretty interesting attempt to get Arabic to fit block printing constraints :thinking_cirno: 

https://worksthatwork.com/6/unified-arabic
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إمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸@emmy@transfem.social (2026-09-08 18:34:27)
@koakuma@uwu.social @chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz I don't see the problem this is trying to solve. Computers can already render "Basic" Arabic in a "readable but with some annoying corner cases" manner. All this does is annoy more people for no reason at all.

See also the history of the printing press and Arabic.

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/ang7ku750zo00ejh

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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 20:13:32)
@emmy @chjara That was in the typewriter era so it predates computers by a fair amount of time

And that script definitely fall under this pattern :akkoderp: 

> when the machine cannot do the script, simplify the script, ship it, and call it progress.