w3c/alreq

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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Arabic Script languages on the Web and in eBooks.

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Indexed issues: 93

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Last GitHub push: Aug 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Swash form in alreq Open

i:justification

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w3c/alreq#290 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2025
Should `touch-action` support logical directions like `pan-inline` / `pan-block`? Open

i:bidi_text i:interaction l:arb l:ks l:ku l:pes l:ug l:ur question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#289 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
How to write negative numbers in Persian? Open

i:data_formats l:arb l:pes question s:arab

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/alreq#288 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Small circles should only appear below initial & medial forms of KASHMIRI YEH Open

doc:arfa gap i:fonts l:ks p:basic s:arab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#287 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2025
Mirroring icons (and emojis) Open

i:bidi_text i:glyphs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#282 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 7, 2024
Single-letter Kashida Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/alreq#281 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Bidirectional text as a web standard Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#280 · Opened Jul 21, 2024
Wrong glyph digit shapes for extended arabic-indic digits Open

doc:arab_ur doc:arfa gap i:fonts l:arb l:pes l:ur p:advanced s:arab s:aran x:arab-ur x:blink x:gecko x:webkit

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#279 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 20, 2024
Move the list of secondary references from to main document Open

editorial

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#278 · Opened May 20, 2024
Characters that are not used for Arabic/Persian Open

question s:arab

w3c/alreq#277 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 19, 2024
Font fallback should allow selection of a Nastaliq font Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ur doc:arfa gap i:fonts l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ur p:basic s:arab s:aran x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:blink x:css-fonts x:gecko x:webkit

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#276 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2024
Character and code point? Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

w3c/alreq#275 · Opened Dec 29, 2023
The kano font style Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#272 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2023
Is a talur yeh inside a lexical item followed by a space? Open

i:encoding l:ks question s:aran

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#270 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 7, 2023
Urdu Layourt Requirements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#269 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2023
Possible typo Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#268 · Opened Aug 17, 2023
Should progress bars in HTML progress and meter elements be read RTL? Open

i:bidi_text i:interaction l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur question s:arab s:aran

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#259 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2022
:dir lacks wide support – FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:bidi_text l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur p:ok s:arab s:aran x:adlm x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:hebr x:nkoo

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

w3c/alreq#256 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2022
Uighur hyphenation should be supported Open

doc:arab_ug gap i:hyphenation l:ug p:basic x:arab-ug x:blink x:gecko x:webkit

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#250 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2022
Lack of font support for Kashmiri characters makes text deviate from true semantics Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arfa gap i:encoding i:fonts l:ks p:basic s:arab s:aran x:webkit

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#249 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2022
Add Text on Placement Position of Degree Sign Open

drafting

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#248 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2022
Support for isolating formatting characters lacking in some browsers – FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:bidi_text l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug p:ok s:arab s:aran x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

w3c/alreq#244 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2021
Glyph orientation and joining behaviour in vertical text Open

i:writing_mode l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur question s:arab s:aran

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#243 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2021
CSS Writing-modes sideways values not implemented — FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arab_ur doc:arfa gap i:writing_mode l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur p:ok s:arab s:aran

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

w3c/alreq#242 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2021
Line breaking rules Open

l:ug question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#237 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2020
Hijri calendar abbreviation for Urdu Open

i:data_formats l:ur question s:aran

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#229 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2020
Customisable counter-styles are not supported — FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:lists l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug p:ok s:arab s:aran x:arab-ks x:arab-ug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

w3c/alreq#227 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Need control of baseline stretching for stretch-to-fit situations Open

doc:arfa gap i:spacing l:arb l:pes p:basic s:arab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#226 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Need better control of cursive justification mechanisms Open

doc:arfa gap i:justification l:arb l:pes p:basic s:arab x:alreq

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#225 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2020
q element produces incorrect quotation marks when language changes Open

doc:arfa gap i:quotations l:arb l:pes p:advanced s:arab

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#224 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Underlines too close to text in Arabic — FIXED ! Open

doc:arfa gap i:text_decoration l:arb l:pes p:ok s:arab x:alreq

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#223 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Inline elements/styling break cursive shaping – FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arab_ur doc:arfa gap i:cursive l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur p:ok x:adlm x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:blink x:gecko x:nkoo x:webkit

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#222 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Text opacity shows glyph overlap Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arab_ur doc:arfa gap i:cursive l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur p:advanced s:arab s:aran x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#221 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Text stroke cuts joining glyphs apart Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:cursive l:arb l:pes l:ug l:ur p:advanced x:adlm x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:blink x:css x:css-fill-and-stroke x:gecko x:nkoo x:webkit

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#220 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Controls needed to adjust diacritic positioning Open

doc:arfa gap i:glyphs l:arb l:pes p:advanced s:arab x:alreq

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#219 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Controls needed for italic slant direction Open

doc:arfa gap i:letterforms l:arb l:pes p:advanced s:arab x:alreq x:css x:css-fonts

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#218 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Logical CSS keyword support needed Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:bidi_text l:arb l:pes l:ug p:basic x:adlm x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:blink x:css x:css-logical x:gecko x:hebr x:nkoo x:webkit

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/alreq#217 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Need support for dirname attribute – FIXED ! Open

doc:arab_ks doc:arab_ug doc:arfa gap i:bidi_text l:arb l:ks l:pes l:ug l:ur p:ok s:arab s:aran x:adlm x:alreq x:arab-ks x:arab-ug x:hebr x:nkoo

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

w3c/alreq#216 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Inline dagger alif and hamza Open

l:arb

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#213 · Opened Jan 29, 2020
Which font to use for examples? Open

editorial

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#207 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2019
Arabic writing styles Open

editorial l:arb

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#206 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2019
Terminology Open

editorial

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#205 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2019
Transliteration Open

editorial

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#204 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2019
Are vertically-misaligned characters joined? Open

i:cursive l:arb question s:arab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#203 · Opened Nov 19, 2019
Block elements converted to inline should retain isolation Open

browser-bug spec-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#193 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2018
Correct Spacing for LAM before Non-Arabic and BEH Before Number Open

i:spacing l:arb question s:arab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/alreq#189 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2018
Arabic fractions Open

drafting l:arb

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

w3c/alreq#181 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 13, 2018
Recommended symbols/signs for Paragraph and Section & general mirroring gaps Open

i:punctuation_etc question s:arab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#161 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2018
[misc] Presentation of Flags with RTL text Open

drafting

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/alreq#160 · Opened Jan 11, 2018
Section on Ellipsis and other Truncations Open

drafting i:abbrev question

w3c/alreq#156 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 21, 2017

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