A billion-speaker script still can't be justified correctly in any 2026 browser. Here's why (lr0.org)
The specs to do it right have existed for decades. OpenType's justification table dates to 1997 and goes unread by shaping engines, so foundries don't ship it; for one strange quarter in 2000, IE 5.5 was the only software on earth that justified Arabic correctly.
The fix sits in nobody's commercial interest, so it falls to volunteers. A developer who just wrote an Arabic-capable text shaper from scratch confirmed the gap, and where it really lives.
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