Re: The Basmala (was: Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units)

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 14:26:07 EDT


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:

> PS: As soon as the basmala gets in, I promise that I will try and
> propose twenty other characters for Arabic ritual formulae, such as
> "`alayhi as-salaam" (peace be upon him), "radiya llahu `anhu" (may God
> have mercy upon him), the corresponding feminine variants, and so
> on... they're not as frequent as the basmala, but still frequent. ;-)

The funny point is that they are all proposed in some way. Not the
complete ligature, but an abbreviation. They will occupy some five or six
code points starting from U+0610.

roozbeh



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