John Hudson wrote:
> At 14:27 10/10/2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
> >No, it's not a fifth form. It's just the initial form. Since
> Heh is too
> >similiar to the Arabic digit five, when refering to the
> letter, an initial
> >form is usually used. The glyph in at U+0647 in Unicode
> charts is just
> >that...
>
> I know it is based on the initial form, but I have seen a number of
> typefaces in which it is designed as a separate, variant
> glyph, the usual
> characteristic of which is that the left connecting stroke of
> the initial
> form is truncated. I've attached a small graphic showing the
> five forms.
I wonder how such a glyph (the 4th from right, I mean) should be encoded.
I'd suggest HEH ZWJ ZWNJ (U+0647 U+200D U+200C).
_ Marco
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