Shaping

Text shaping is the concept of combining or separating characters where possible. The Arabic usage is with ligatures (such as the LAM, ALEF, and LAM-ALEF characters). For example, in a non-shaped word, both LAM and ALEF characters would appear separately. In a shaped word, the two characters would be replaced with a single LAM-ALEF character.

Numeric shaping is the idea that normal regular numerals (0–9) can be shaped to be Arabic-Indic

Examples

  • Ù„ = LAM
  • ïº = ALEF
  • ۙﻻ = LAM ALEF
Original text Resulting text
abcï»»def
Input
Shaped
Output
Unshaped
 abcÙ„ïºdef
Original text Resulting text
abcÙ„ïºdef
Input
Unshaped
Output
Shaped
 abcï»»def