Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

Our original proposal had these unified, but for various reasons we were
asked to disunify them.
Lorna

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Subject: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages
(n3882)
From: mmarx <mmarx_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: unicode_at_unicode.org
Date: 8/12/2011 11:21 AM
> I want to warn against an aspect of n3883
> by Lorna A. Priest, Martin Hosken (SIL International)
>
> On p. 12 they state that West-Africans see the
> angular damma as a glyph variant of round damma.
> In spite of this they think it should be encoded
> separately, and several variants of damma should
> be encoded as well.
>
> I think it is wrong to encode both "Guinean damma
> with dot" (as shown on p. 12) and "Arabic damma
> with dot" (p. 13).
>
> I attach a couple of picture from Maghrebi Arabic
> text displaying damma shaped more like the one seen
> in West African texts rather than the one
> called by Priest and Hosken "Arabic damma".
>
> All of these damma signs are Arabic and if need be
> I could produce pictures from many more editions
> of the Qur'an displaying the angular damma shape.
>
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> If this is not the proper forum -- or not the
> proper form -- please re-direct me to get this
> discussed by the proper people.
>
> Marx
Received on Fri Aug 12 2011 - 17:23:25 CDT