From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Sep 20 2005 - 04:23:07 CDT
From: "Mete Kural" <metek@touchtonecorp.com>
> Similar to the need for an additional hamza character for Urdu and Sindhi
> that you have mentioned Lateef, there is also a need for a seperate hamza
> character for classical Arabic. The currently available U+0621 hamza
> character is sufficient for modern Arabic and Persian. U+0621 hamza is
> defined to be a dis-joining character when found in medial position in a
> word which is the correct behaviour in Persian. Meaning, it causes the
> letters that come before it and after it to disconnect from each other, if
> they do connect normally. But in classical Arabic, hamza is not a
> dis-joining character when in medial position, it is rather a floating
> character that flots over the connection between two letter that connect.
> Numerous examples are found in most printings of the Quran (verse 2:4 look
> for al-aakhira, verse 2:33 look for yaa'adamu, etc., etc.). Because of
> this missing hamza (and several other things) it is impossible to encode
> "the most common editions" of the Qur'an such as the!
Couldn't that be treated by a ligature indication? I mean ZWJ on both sides
of hamza?
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