Re: Dotless j and Arabic Noon

From: Arno Schmitt (arno@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 12:32:18 EDT


Dear Roozbeh,

why is u+0626 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ON YA

not good enough.
I have no idea of Persian or other Arabic script languages, but I
know Hamza below occuring only with Alif, but with ya only Hanza
Above.
When do you use dotless yeh with hamza below? :-)

Arno

Roozbeh Pournader schrieb:
>
> Dear All,
> I came to a nice point: Arabic letter YEH is very similiar to
> SMALL LETTER I and SMALL LETTER J. It loses its dots when followed by
> these two Unicode 3.0 non-spacing marks, but not others (will this be
> mentioned in the standard?):
>
> 1. U+0654 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ABOVE
> 2. U+0655 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA BELOW
>
> It is important that these happen with all four forms of YEH, even with
> medial and initial forms, so font encoders need a glyph variant to encode
> this.
>
> --roozbeh



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