I’m not all that sure that having an Arabic or Farsi font is all that good of an idea. Here’s the reason. I worked at the UT libraries and part of my job was to process some Middle Eastern books for binding, meaning I had to examine them for margins, maps, etc. At any rate, got a good look at the written language. They are stunningly beautiful. Sorta like Elvish. I was never able to distinguish between them. Much like most Westerns cannot distinguish between Japanese and Chinese. At any rate, sometimes the books would get very odd, where the characters were highly morphed so that they suggested a picture. Those were pretty awesome to run across. You really can’t do this well with our Latin based alphabets. I’d hate to see this gone from the world.
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