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[css-fonts-4] Add generic(nastaliq), w3c#4397
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but if it does, that font will be in Kai style.
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<dt id="generic(nastaliq)-def"><dfn>generic(nastaliq)</dfn>
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<dd>
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This font family is the standard way of writing Urdu and Kashmiri,
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and is also often a preferred style for Persian and other language text,
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especially in literary genres such as poetry.
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Key features include a sloping baseline for joined letters,
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and overall complex shaping and positioning for base letters and diacritics alike.
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There are also distinctive shapes for many glyphs and ligatures.
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It is important not to fall back to a naskh style
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for languages such as Urdu and Kashmiri.
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Note: ''generic(nastaliq)'' might not map to any locally installed font,
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but if it does, that font will be in Nastaliq style.
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<dt id="ui-serif-def"><dfn>ui-serif</dfn>
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<dd>
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This font family is used for the serif variant of the system's

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