Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Arabic letters look disconnected or squares appear

Kuwait and Gulf

What you may see

Letters are separated, or the font looks wrong
Boxes (tofu) replace some characters

Most likely cause

Letter spacing, uppercase transforms, or a font without Arabic letters break the way Arabic joins.

Check first (about two minutes)

Search the CSS for letter-spacing, text-transform and the font-family used by the Arabic text.

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

I am in Kuwait. If the service has a Kuwait or Gulf rule or option that matters here (for example KNET, Arabic right-to-left text or local time), take it into account.

THE PROBLEM
Arabic letters look disconnected or squares appear

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Letter spacing, uppercase transforms, or a font without Arabic letters break the way Arabic joins.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Set letter-spacing: 0 and text-transform: none for Arabic text.
2. Use a font that includes Arabic (or a good system fallback list), loaded with its Arabic subset.
3. Check the font weight exists for Arabic; avoid faking bold.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Arabic text is connected, readable and consistent on iPhone, Android and desktop.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not change the words.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Set letter-spacing: 0 and text-transform: none for Arabic text.
Use a font that includes Arabic (or a good system fallback list), loaded with its Arabic subset.
Check the font weight exists for Arabic; avoid faking bold.

Do not do this

Do not apply letter-spacing to a whole page that has Arabic.
Do not change the words.

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