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ValdikSSyesterday at 12:25 PM1 replyview on HN

>compelling explanation for why Nastaliq is hard/unavailable

https://www.tiro.com/John/TypeCon2014_Hudson_DECK.pdf


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abdullahkhalidstoday at 1:09 AM

Nastaliq fonts already exist and used whenever possible. Yes, rendering a Nastaliq font takes marginally more compute. But in a world of electron apps which have a 10-100 times slower UX than they could be, saving compute is not an argument.