Arabic text in PoP2 background

[Norbert]

One of the background images of PoP2 contains Arabic text.


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Someone on IRC explained the text to me.
It's a reference to the book ...


(mirror)

... كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ (a.k.a. One Thousand and One Nights).

كتاب = book
1000 = الف
ليلة = night
و = and

(I've been trying to get that '1000 = arabic' as 'arabic = 1000' for 10 minutes, but without success. )

[musa]

Google translator says it's Book of One Thousand and One Night.

[David]

I remember there was a topic about this on PoPUW.

(I've been trying to get that '1000 = arabic' as 'arabic = 1000' for 10 minutes, but without success. )

Ah, the wonders of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm...

I found the solution:
[LRO][RLE]الف[PDF] = 1000[PDF]
‭‫الف‬ = 1000‬
or: (Explicit Directional Isolates were introduced only in Unicode 6.3.0 - at the end of September)
[RLI]الف[PDI] = 1000
⁧الف⁩ = 1000

[Norbert]

I found the solution:
[LRO][RLE]الف[PDF] = 1000[PDF]
‭‫الف‬ = 1000‬
or: (Explicit Directional Isolates were introduced only in Unicode 6.3.0 - at the end of September)
[RLI]الف[PDI] = 1000
⁧الف⁩ = 1000

Nice.