Mixing that and normal text very quickly becomes exhausting. Try writing "cat" in Arabic, followed by "is cute".
You'll notice that some text editors won't easily let you do that. And that text selections suddenly start behaving weirdly. And more stuff like that.
And most text editors, in true WYSIWYG fashion, choose to hide certain Unicode codepoints. E.g. "left to right override" and "right to left override" are simply not displayed.
Arabic text has another funny, very WYSIWYG-like property. When you chain characters, they get displayed differently.
stefnotch
commented
10 months ago
There's right-to-left text. Like Arabic.
Mixing that and normal text very quickly becomes exhausting. Try writing "cat" in Arabic, followed by "is cute".
You'll notice that some text editors won't easily let you do that. And that text selections suddenly start behaving weirdly. And more stuff like that. And most text editors, in true WYSIWYG fashion, choose to hide certain Unicode codepoints. E.g. "left to right override" and "right to left override" are simply not displayed. Arabic text has another funny, very WYSIWYG-like property. When you chain characters, they get displayed differently.
-- could maybe be added to the thesis