On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> No. That would make things worse, not better, for every kind of
> processing software except rendering software. There would be two
> ways of representing the semantic "j" (as there are five ways of
> representing the semantic "arabic jim"), one used with combining
> characters and one without.
If only I could find the person who suggested the Arabic presentation
forms to be in Unicode... ;)
To speak literally, I think it will be one of the great difficulties of
the Persian (Arabic writing) community to get rid of them.
--Roozbeh
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