Re: Characters LAM and ALIF together (ligature) in Arabic

From: Andreas Prilop <prilop4321_at_trashmail.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:56:17 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Escape Landsome wrote:

> In Arabic, when writing a LAM followed by an ALIF, you have a special
> ligature of the two letters

Some (broken) fonts do not form the lam-alif ligature when you insert
some non-spacing mark between lam and alif:
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2008-m05/thread.html#139
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/lam-alif.html

Windows 7 is better in this respect than Windows XP.
Received on Mon Mar 26 2012 - 12:02:06 CDT

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