Re: Arabic based alphabets

From: N.R.Liwal (liwal@liwal.net)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 22:08:10 EDT

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Letter Zeem (dze) is now accepted "heh with Hamaza above".

Liwal
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  From: Vladimir Ivanov
  To: unicode@unicode.org
  Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:25 AM
  Subject: Arabic based alphabets

Vladimir Ivanov wrote:

>Letter "dze" is represented in Unicode by U+0681 "Arabic letter heh with
>hamza above",
>though the sign above heh is not exactly hamza.

John Hudson wrote:

> Does Pashto also make use of the regular hamza sign in other contexts?

Yes, for instance in Arabic loan words like "shu'Un".
If Mr. Vladimir is refering to Hamza ( U+0621), use in Pashto then common Arabic
word in Pashto with hamza will be "Ibtida" = intially.

Liwal

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