From: CE Whitehead (cewcathar@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 16:26:42 CST
Hi, thanks for your comments.
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:20:22 +0100
> From: prilop4321@trashmail.net
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Arabic aleph representation of glyphs
>
> 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.
Thanks; I read that but forgot -- these characters certainly do not display properly in some browsers.
>
> 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
{O.k. I usually do specify both direction and script or language}
>
> 3) The sequence U+0629 U+064B does exist at the end of a word.
Yes and only at the end of a word. Thanks for going to all this trouble.
> The sequence U+0629 U+064B U+0627 does *not* exist in Arabic.
Yes I was corrected on the latter.
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com
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