Both Pakistan and a few years ago the Maldives indicated that they
have a genuine need to use this "ligature" with considerable
frequency in official documents of various kinds. It's not expected
that every user type in the whole phrase letter by letter nor that
ordinary Arabic fonts would support it in formatting the thing as it
is expected to appear. They have a genuine need to use this as a
single entity, not decomposed to its consituent parts, and it seemed
prudent to WG2 and to the UTC to encode it.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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