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  1. …in reply to @tsmullaney
    @tsmullaney @histoftech @keralovell the main challenge in arabic is the difficulty in collapsing whitespace. in english i can parse #AFewWords or even #afewwords correctly, but in arabic it has to be #بعض_من_الكلمات with underscores, because theres no cases and the cursive script makes #بعضمنالكلمات unintelligible
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      @tsmullaney @histoftech @keralovell strictly speaking you could use the zero-width non-joiner to write #بعض‌من‌الكلمات which also registers as a hashtag and only looks kind of weird. it gets used in persian more, but entering that character on many keyboards is a challenge.
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