i18n fails

Not Arabic #2

If you have to write your own shaping engine, maybe at least double check before you publish your news post.

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العربية
in[4]:= Grid[{#, Lookup[WikipediaData[Entity["Person", "BarackObama::7yj6w"], "TitleTranslationRules"], #]} & /@ {"Cherokee", "Arabic", "Chinese", "Japanese", "Korean", "Mongolian", "Sanskrit"}, Alignment -> Left, Frame -> All] Out[4]:= A table of name of Barak Obama in different languages. Arabic text is rendered unjoined left-to-right.

Name of Barack Obama in Arabic, “باراك أوباما”, incorrectly rendered as “‭ﺏﺍﺭﺍك ﺃﻭﺏﺍﻡﺍ‬”.

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