Re: kurdish sorani

From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 10:14:45 CDT

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, John Hudson wrote:

> There is currently uncertainty over the correct encoding of the Uighur h.
> Although U+06BE is the obvious choice based on its shaping, at least some
> Uighur text seems to use the Arabic heh U+0647, which requires dedicated
> Uighur fonts or OT language system tag support.

Note that U+06BE is the Urdu "two-eyed he", which has wrong glyphs
in the MS Windows fonts Arial and Times New Roman:
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/two-eyed-he.html6
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/urdu-alphabet.html#x06BE

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