In Arabic old books used to use the math symbols for the abjad numbers (so the ا would have a “serif”, ج or ه would be in initial form etc). Presumably because it made the symbols stand out since they are used in isolation. -- GitHub Notification of comment by khaledhosny Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/92#issuecomment-276818799 using your GitHub accountReceived on Wednesday, 1 February 2017 23:36:23 UTC
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