RE: Farsi Keheh +06A9 vs. Arabic Kaf +0643 ??

From: Miikka-Markus Alhonen (Miikka-Markus.Alhonen@tigatieto.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 05:29:33 EST

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    Lainaus Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>:
    >
    > These made me wonder about a couple of Unicode disunifications:
    >
    > - U+0643 (ARABIC LETTER KAF) vs. U+06A9 (ARABIC LETTER KEHEH) vs. U+06AA
    > (ARABIC LETTER SWASH KAF);

    "Keheh" vs. "swash Kaf" seems to be contrastive in Sindhi. See
    ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/doc/arabdoc.pdf
    page 49's transliteration table, where "k" produces a swash kaf and
    "kh" a keheh.

    Best regards,
    Miikka-Markus Alhonen

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