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Compiling PyFriBidi on Windows

Although I mentioned in my previous post that PyFriBidi isn’t the Swiss Army knife of Python language support, it’s still rather useful as far as RTL language support goes given the alternatives (i.e., none).  Using it, though, requires that little step called “compiling”, which turns out to be far from a bundle of joy on […]

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Working with Arabic in Python

Part of working for a language services company means you get very familiar with the Unicode standard. Intimately so, to the point of awkward night-after calls. Case in point: Arabic shaping. The basic gist is that, because Arabic script is cursive, the appearance of any specific character depends on how it joins to its neighbors. […]

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