It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text...

		yorwba 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes It depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab