RE: Incorrect names for Arabic letters

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sun Mar 20 2005 - 15:26:04 CST

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    AFAIK ISO 8589-6 was derived from an ASMO (Arab Standardization and
    Meteorological Organisation) standard. Among the people involved were a
    Lebanese and a number of Syrians and Egyptians .

    http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ishaq/arabic/asm/node53.html#699

    http://www.ituarabic.org/Annual03/Documents/Doc35.ppt#12

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
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    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
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    > Subject: Re: Incorrect names for Arabic letters
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    > The names in the Standard are probably taken from the ISO 8859 part
    > for Arabic. The transcription convention probably indicates EH for
    > e-macron.
    > --
    > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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