Re: Arabic aleph representation of glyphs

From: Andreas Prilop (prilop4321@trashmail.net)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 10:20:22 CST

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    On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, CE Whitehead wrote:

    > Now . . . for my questions:
    > [...]

    Sorry, I find your message still confusing and I still wonder
    what you actually want.

    I have a few remarks for you:

    1) You should not use any letters from the "Presentation Forms"
       at all. They are just for compatibility with older charsets.

    2) Programs (including webbrowsers) are not perfect in displaying
       right-to-left text. You are better off when you specify text
       direction explicitly. In HTML, you should always write
       <... dir=rtl> or <... dir=ltr> See
       http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/charset/text-direction.html
       http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bidirectional-text.html

    3) The sequence U+0629 U+064B does exist at the end of a word.
       The sequence U+0629 U+064B U+0627 does *not* exist in Arabic.

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