علل الواجهات العربية

هوايتي جمع صور علل الواجهات العربية المضحكة. هنا مجموعة من اختياراتي المفضلة.

rtl makes the jankiest bugs

a few years ago, i started collecting funny bugs that pop up in systems localised to a right-to-left language. this later expanded to include any interesting localisation bugs.

for a while i posted them on a long-running thread on that old microblogging website. here i'm reposting some of my favourites.

anno domini? anno hegirae? cur non ambo?!

2024-??-01

gregorian date with the hijri month

easter egg in the arabic apple home app only: icon backflip

2024-04-01

which way does the progress bar go? both!

2020-04-10

left

2020-04-28

no, the other left

2019-08-19

drag the beginning to change the end

2020-04-29

بولقشلاب مسالا لاخدإ ءاجرلا

2019-11-27

arabic text reversed for some reason

نرم عبرم

arabic text also reversed here

left alightment

2020-04-25

text rendered on top of text

cancel, or cancel?

2020-07-31

the modal to confirm deleting a google calendar event or cancel the deletion offers 'cancel' as both options

→←

2020-07-31

firefox's back and forward icons are (not) reversed in the right to left interface

which do you prefer, serif or sans?

2020-06-08

the sample text for both serif and sans serif options is in an identical arabic typeface