Re: chairless hamza (in reply to John)

From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 04:33:18 CST

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    On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:32:38PM -0800, John Hudson wrote:
    > arno wrote:
    >> = in MSA it is a typo, that's why your fonts do not behave properly,
    >> because the designers do not envision the case (whenever somebody write it
    >> on the machine, she immediately corrects it);
    >
    > I don't understand this section of your message.

    If I have to rephrase this, in MSA chairless hamza *never* lay between
    dual joining characters, it always set on a chair. So, there is no
    confusion as a word like يسءل is only valid in Quranic text and is
    considered a typo in MSA (it should be يسئل for MSA). 

    -- 
 Khaled Hosny

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