“The Script Does Not Respond” – Arabic Script’s Difficulties in the Digital Realm. A Visual Approach

“The Script Does Not Respond” – Arabic Script’s Difficulties in the Digital Realm. A Visual Approach

“The Script Does Not Respond” – Arabic Script’s Difficulties in the Digital Realm. A Visual Approach
Alina Kokoschka Article This article examines different layers of the problematic visual representation of Arabic as a writing system in the digital realm. It starts with the often false, sometimes severely distorted representations of Arabic script. Although most obvious in daily office work and strolls through Latin-Arabic Linguistic Landscapes, this phenomenon has not yet been systematically looked into. The many unintended and often unnoticed misrepresentations that lead to…