From: Andreas Prilop (prilop4321@trashmail.net)
Date: Tue Jul 27 2010 - 11:43:19 CDT
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, linguist@artstein.org wrote:
> [...]
> To wrap up, are my observations about the Pashto writing conventions
> correct? And is there a standard for assigning the Pashto characters
> representing /j/ and /i:/ to Unicode code points?
Practical answer:
U+0649 and U+064A are included in MacArabic/MacFarsi and Windows-1256;
but U+06CC is not. Support for 0649 and 064A in fonts is still better
than for 06CC. For example, try the various Arabic fonts in Windows XP:
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/ya.arabic.html
Therefore you should use only U+0649 and U+064A for Arabic, Persian, Urdu
if you want your documents to be displayed on other computers.
I have done so in
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/arabic-alphabet.html
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/persian-alphabet.html
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/mac-urdu-alphabet.html
However, for Pashto you need characters outside Windows-1256 anyway.
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Theoretical answer:
U+0649 has (should have) four glyphs without any dots. This is no
Arabic letter, but an Uighur letter. Therefore you should not use
U+0649 for Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu but only U+06CC.
I have done so in
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/urdu-alphabet.html
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/pashto-alphabet.html
U+0649 has the traditional name "alif maqsura" because it was
taken from ISO-8859-6. But I see no objection to use U+06CC
for alif maqsura.
You cannot distinguish the initial and middle glyphs of 064A and 06CC.
Use whatever you want. Given the practical answer above, you might
prefer U+064A. But if you don't have U+06CC in your font, you
probably don't have Pashto letters either.
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