Re: Rendering of U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:42:32PM -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?
>
> (Combining class doesn't help -- or at least is notoriously misleading
> as far as correct rendering of Arabic -- so I'm not trusting it to
> provide the correct answer here, either).
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Bob

Madda above the vowel (the madda prolongates the vowel, not the opposite...)

P.T.

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