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Right to left, from the first line

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Why every screen is written once and read in both directions.

Two layouts from one stylesheet

Every margin, padding and position is written by its logical side, start and end, never left and right. The Arabic screen mirrors itself, and nobody maintains a second layout.

What does not mirror

Numbers, code and email addresses keep their direction inside an Arabic sentence. Arrows that point forward flip; a clock or a check mark does not.

Words, not translations

The Arabic copy is written for Arabic readers, with its own quotation marks and Latin digits for every figure, so a price reads the same in both languages.