From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 20:21:32 CDT
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
> On 2007.07.12, 13:44, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > for Latin/Greek/Cyrilic general combining characters we have the dotted
> > circle in visible editable forms, for Lao vowels some cross-cymbol, for
> > Thai some dash symbol, ...
> >
> > For Arabic probably the shaddah.
>
> You mean the tatweel?… (The shadda is itself a combining mark, surely not
> usable as a generic base character.)
Yes, this is a common confusion coming from French. The actual French term
is "tatouil" (but there are other terms used here by people with African
origin, and I did not remember exactly which one). I really mean U+0640.
Sorry for this confusion...
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