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Why not? It's just Unicode. At the risk of being downvoted for negativity, the calligraphy is nothing out of the ordinary. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic for example.


I didn't mean Arabic script (which is pretty normal; there are about 4 letter forms per character, but it's only a small factor more complex than latin). I meant the actual practice of Arabic calligraphy, where they use it to make pictures which are usually specific to the text. e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=arabic+calligraphy&tbm=isch

This has about as much to do with normal Arabic script as the best illuminated manuscripts do with latin script.


Oh, OK. The images from that search do look like they would be difficult to automate, a lot of artistic judgement and creativity involved.




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