On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Arno Schmitt wrote:
> why is u+0626 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ON YA
>
> not good enough.
I don't talk about good or bad. Look at the 3.0 beta character database to
find that U+0626 has a cannonical decomposition: U+064A U+0654.
Which is ARABIC LETTER YEH plus ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE.
> I have no idea of Persian or other Arabic script languages, but I
> know Hamza below occuring only with Alif, but with ya only Hanza
> Above.
> When do you use dotless yeh with hamza below? :-)
Ok, take a look at Qur'an 2:5. There is a word there "ulAika" that will be
coded:
0627 0654 0648 06DF 0644 064E 0670 0653 064A 0655 0650 0643 064E
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The YEH is dotless. Need more samples? :-)
(I write in Arabic script in my notes, and Qur'an is one of the obligatory
courses of the schools from the third grade elementary to fourth grade
high school which means 10 years. What do you think they can teach us in
these ten years? The sad answer is: almost every detail!)
--Roozbeh
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