• Software support status

Xorg problems:

• Laam Alif problem

Gnome problems:

• Keyboard layouts preview
• Gedit
• Nautilu
• Gnome Terminal

KDE problems:

• Laa Problem on Konsole

Libreoffice

• Libreoffice metabug thread
• Non-persisting text direction
• Break line on text direction change
• Plaintext autodetect direction

Fixed:

• Squiggly lines covering misspelled Arabic words: libreoffice-7-5

Kashida justification

Arabic is one of the few languages that are cursive and connected by their nature.

This makes justifying text different for Arabic. In addition to justifying text by spaces, there’s Kashida justification.

This is a compilation of resources related to implementing Kashida justification in various programs:

1. Algorithm by Microsoft.
2. LaTeX implementation by Andreas Hallberg.
3. W3 Full Justification Proposal.

Open issues:

• Incorrect display of Arabic
• Syriac problem.

Websites

• 2022-08-30: Reddit
• 2020-06-16: element.io
• 2021-05-03: Fluffy Chat
• 2018-11-03: Discord
• 2023-06-03: Tutanota
• 2021-07-21: Lemmy

Workarounds

• add-bidi-support: a Firefox addon to demonstrate bidi support on web pages.
• markdown-it-bidi: a plugin for markdown-it project to add bidi support to md-to-html parsers.