New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put out flyers in Arabic — but the text was full of errors.

In case it wasn’t already obvious, there clearly isn’t a single Arabic speaker on AOC’s team.

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldOP
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    24 days ago

    I’ve seen people saying that if you paste Arabic text into InDesign, by default it orders it left-to-right and doesn’t ligate the text.

    • Sundial@lemm.ee
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      24 days ago

      I’m not familiar with InDesign, so maybe if that’s the case? I’d be surprised even then since the pasted text doesn’t match the source in the slightest. But that could be a possibility.

      • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldOP
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        24 days ago

        The last time I used desktop publishing software was 20 years ago, but I can confirm it didn’t handle Arabic text well.