Arabic is not mirrored English
What we learned building bilingual interfaces that genuinely work in both directions.
Flipping direction with one CSS line gives you a mirrored layout, not an Arabic interface. Numerals, symbols, charts and arrows each follow a different rule.
The clearest example is letter-spacing. In Latin it lends a heading composure; in Arabic it breaks the cursive joins and makes the word unreadable.
So we build both languages together from day one. A language added later is always added at the first one's expense.
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