| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| bidirectional rendering | Arabic is usually right-to-left, but embedded numbers or embedded European words are left-to-right |
| combined characters | see: ligatures |
| contextual shaping | Sometimes a character looks different based on what char(s) it is next to |
| font shaping | [?] changing how chars looks based on the chars around them |
| ligatures | letters combined into a new 'character' like AE being compressed to: Æ |
| specialized word break and justification rules | Thai |
| Illegal char combos | Thai |
| Term | Description |
|---|