Re: [alreq] How are underlines positioned in Arabic text?

• From: Najib Tounsi via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:14:22 +0000
• To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
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When seeing the issue, same questions come to my mind : 
1. Is underline meaningful for Arabic script (Considering aesthetic 
aspect of some styles/fonts)
2. About position, which baseline to consider,
3. Should the underline behave with "descender", come under or cross 
it 
4. What about marks and diacritics bellow letters. How not overlap.

 Here are some pictures showing some concerns. Depend also on browsers
 and fonts.

![crossall](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15004708/20431070/f22214b6-ad8f-11e6-9886-036f82acb9f3.png)
![someletters](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15004708/20431071/f22d8fee-ad8f-11e6-81d9-d4c19fc6c7be.png)
![underall](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15004708/20431073/f247f4ec-ad8f-11e6-85f0-7a7b226ba0f3.png)
![underallbutkasra](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15004708/20431072/f237aa24-ad8f-11e6-80d0-245dd940874b.png)
![whichbaseline](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15004708/20431074/f24fb15a-ad8f-11e6-982c-51011a7762b7.png)



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