From: Amélie DELTOUR (amelie.deltour@ira.uka.de)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 03:34:01 EST
Hi,
How should the LAM-ALEF ligature be vocalized in Arabic according to
Unicode?
In texts on the Internet, I find the codes in the following order for
instance: "U+0644 U+0627 U+064E" (LAM-ALEF-FATHA). The logical order
would rather be LAM-FATHA-ALEF.
The problem is that if the LAM-FATHA-ALEF order is used, then the
LAM-ALEF ligature is not recognized in common display programs (IE, NS6
or MS Word).
If I understand the Unicode Standard well, the FATHA should be treated
as a "transparent character" and should not disturb the representation
of the LAM-ALEF ligature. In that case, it would only be an
implementation problem of the display programs...
However, I can notice that on the Internet, in vocalized texts (Quran,
Bible) the LAM-ALEF ligature is most often bad vocalized : the diacritic
mark is before the ligature, or after, or in most cases is not there at
all (in particular in the case of "li + alef-hamza") - which is quite
annoying.
Can someone tell me more about this?
Thanks,
Amélie
(Sorry if the issue has already been submitted to the list - I couldn't
find the answer to my question in the archive)
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