Dotless j and Arabic Noon

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 12:44:51 EDT


Dear All,
I came to a nice point: Arabic letter YEH is very similiar to
SMALL LETTER I and SMALL LETTER J. It loses its dots when followed by
these two Unicode 3.0 non-spacing marks, but not others (will this be
mentioned in the standard?):

1. U+0654 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ABOVE
2. U+0655 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA BELOW

It is important that these happen with all four forms of YEH, even with
medial and initial forms, so font encoders need a glyph variant to encode
this.

--roozbeh



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