Michael Everson wrote,
> At 15:22 -0400 2002-08-07, James E. Agenbroad wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure where this discussion is going but isn't there a proposal to
> >assign a single code to the Arabic invocational phrase which translates
> >into English as "In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate"? I
> >will not attempt to count either the number of letters in the Arabic
> >original or the number of combining characters.
>
> Yes, the Bismillah is under ballot. However it will have no decomposition.
> --
Why not? Is this a way of sneaking it past the current policy of
not encoding any new characters which decompose?
"BISMILLAH ARRAHMAN ARRAHIM" is proposed for U+FDFD, which
puts it in the presentation forms area. At normal text sizes it will
probably not be distinguishable from U+25CF.
Calling this phrase a character makes about as much sense as encoding
the word "FAX" at U+213B, which is also apparently under consideration.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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