Hi, Bahman:
I'm not Arabic and certainly don't speak Urdu but sometime back there was a discussion about the jazm character and the sukun
and I lifted the following information from it:
From: Bahman Eslami <eslami.bahman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:17:04 +0330
> Hi,
> I'm developing a typeface that contains most of arabic Unicode > characters (farsi, urdu, sindhi & etc) and I need to see how they are
> used in a text/context, so I'll be able to make informed decision about
> character glyphs. for example I can't find any example that shows how
> "Arabic Year Sign" would be used in a text. If you could provide me
> detailed information of arabic characters in unicode, it would be a
> great help. specifically characters in usage in the script before their
> inclusion in digital typefaces. I also add that I red the chapter 8 of
> Unicode standard but It doesn't have any examples that shows the usage
> of characters in a text. I need something like this:
>unicode.org/review/pr-171-rub-el-hizb.pdf
> <http://unicode.org/review/pr-171-rub-el-hizb.pdf>
> but about the other characters like "Arabic Year Sign".
U+6E1 (Arabic jazm; display form for Arabic sukun in Q'uranic Arabic when the font does not display properly) versus U+652 (sukiun).Note: there's no specifically Urdu jazm encoded; the link to the proposal is just for a description.
1.
http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/specials.html
(General info.)
2.
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2413-4.pdf
(Proposal not accepted; but scroll through this to see samples!)
3.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m03/att-0126/01-testsukunjazm.html
(This last is a test showing how the two characters display in actual fonts as encoded below:
<style type="text/css">
div.quranicarabic { font-family: "Tahoma"; }
div.nonquranicarabic { font-family: "Arabic Transparent, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode"; }
div.urdu { font-family: Tahoma"; }</style>
<body>
<div class="quranicarabic">
<p align="left">Q'uranic Arabic (note I only show the first few characters of the word)</p>
<p lang="ar">للۡك</p>
<p align="left" lang="ar" dir="ltr">lil XU06E1;kaafiyiina</p>
</div>
<div class="nonquranicarabic">
<p align="left">Everyday Arabic (standard)</p>
<p lang="ar">
للْك
</p>
<p align="left" lang="ar" dir="ltr">
lil #U0652 kaafiyiina
</p>
</div>
<div class="urdu">
<p align="left">now for Urdu</p>
<p lang="ur">للْن</p>
There are however some other fonts for displaying this character that I did not download with my fear of downloading anything!!)
Hope this helps for these characters.
Sincerely,
--C. E. Whiteheadcewcathar_at_hotmail.com
> thanks in advance,
> Bahman
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Bahman Eslami
> eslami.bahman_at_gmail.com
Received on Sun Feb 26 2012 - 14:48:14 CST
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