Re: Arabic Jazm Urdu

From: Muhammad Numan Chishti (sa@iap.gov.pk)
Date: Fri Mar 18 2011 - 22:30:46 CST

  • Next message: Vinodh Rajan: "Re: Arabic Jazm Urdu"

    "Nafees Web Naskh" from www.crulp.org shows the Urdu Jazm character (U+0625)
    properly for Urdu.

    Muhammad Numan Chishti

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Bob Hallissy" <Bob_Hallissy@sil.org>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:25 AM
    Subject: Re: Arabic Jazm Urdu

    > On 2011-03-17 at 10:19 CE Whitehead wrote:
    >>
    >> While fonts are being discussed, does anyone know what font will
    >> display the jazm character (currently encoded as a variant of the
    >> sukun, U+0652) properly for Urdu?
    >
    > You might try a variant of SIL's Scheherazade. This font has a number of
    > tunable features which can be selected via SIL TypeTuner. Visit
    > http://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi, select Scheherazade, set the
    > "Sukun" feature to "Open Left", and then click on "Get tuned font" to
    > download a Scheherazade variant with the alternate sukun.
    >
    > I'll be interested to know if this does what you want.
    >
    > Bob Hallissy
    > SIL Non-Roman Script Initiative
    >
    >
    >

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Mar 18 2011 - 22:36:12 CST