linglo

Arabic isn’t an edge case. It’s a language.

Run a real document through any big translation tool and look at what comes back.

Letters that refuse to join. A layout flipped into nonsense. Page numbers stranded on the wrong side. Tables collapsed into rubble. Arabic was on the list of supported languages. The document still came back broken.

The reason is boring: in most of these products Arabic is locale #27, added late and tested never. Right-to-left gets handled as a rendering quirk instead of a writing system. If you have ever rebuilt an Arabic PDF by hand after a tool returned it, you know the drill.

linglo starts from the other end: Arabic first, and the layout is not allowed to break. Joined letters. Real right-to-left. Tables, footnotes and figures that stay where the author put them. Registers that match how official documents are actually written across the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant and the Gulf. Western digits, because that is what those documents actually use. The other 44 languages came afterwards, and they work — but they were never the point.

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