Re: Joining Arabic Letters

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:55:28AM +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> For now I've not seen any existing Arabic font that exhibit the
> correct normative joining behavior for these letters such as U+063D
> (the Farsi Yeh with an inverted v above, which is dual-joining like
> the Farsi Yeh at U+06CC without the inverted v above, and in the same
> joining group; those fonts only map a single non-joining glyph for
> U+063D, but behave correctly for U+06CC). This is true even for all
> Arabic fonts shipped with Windows 7.

Check my free Amiri font (http://amirifont.org), it has full Unicode 6.0
Arabic coverage, with 6.1 additions under the way. But if you are using
a layout engine that predates the addition of that character into
Unicode, even a good font will not help here since the engine will be
using the older Unicode character database where the joining behaviour
of this letter is undefined.

Regards,
 Khaled
Received on Sat Mar 31 2012 - 03:41:47 CDT