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Re: [css-text] I18N-ISSUE-333: 'letter-spacing' and Arabic

From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:15:20 +0100
Message-ID: <53A9A418.5070104@gmail.com>
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
CC: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>, "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org> 
On 24/6/14 13:06, fantasai wrote:
> On 05/30/2014 05:08 AM, Richard Ishida wrote:
>>
>> I found a couple of examples of widely stretched Arabic text
>> that don't decompose the lam-meem ligature in a newspaper I had
>> to hand. I've attached a picture of one.
>
> Richard, that's a great example. Can you or Najib type it up for
> me, please? (I don't recognize the fifth character from the left.)
> Then I can turn it into an example in the spec.
>
> ~fantasai
>

That'd be the lam-meem ligature Richard mentioned. The text looks like 
it reads

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JK
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