Re: compatibility characters in Arabic block

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 09:23:45 EDT


On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> In the Arabic block, there are four characters with compatibility
> decompositions: 0675 - 0678. The names list says that these are for Kazakh.
> I'm wondering why these have compatibility decompositions and not canonical
> deompositions (possibly excluded from composition).

I don't know about the roots, but I think this is because of the weird
behaviour of U+0674. While not a non-spacing mark, it seems that it goes
"before" the previous letter. This surely needs clarification by someone
who knows about the usage in Kazakh.

--roozbeh



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