Re: Rendering of U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:42 -0500, Bob Hallissy wrote:
> Wondering if anyone knows (or has an educated guess):
>
> When an Arabic combining character sequence includes both
> * U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE and
> * an Arabic vowel mark above (e.g., U+064E ARABIC FATHA or maybe
> U+065A ARABIC VOWEL SIGN SMALL V ABOVE),
> should the maddah be rendered above the vowel, or the vowel above the
> maddah?

Definitely the madda above the vowel, to take care of Koranic scenarios.
For example, some annotation styles of the Koran may commonly include
the sequence <WAW, DAMMA, MADDA> to indicate an elongated [u:] sound.
There, the madda clearly goes over the damma.

Roozbeh
Received on Wed Jul 20 2011 - 15:14:24 CDT