From: arno (arno@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 05:15:11 CST
Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:05:08AM +0100, arno wrote:
>> Again: the only possible reason not to do it, is: The present dividing
>> behaviour is asked for by an other language written with the Arabic script.
>> In that case U+0621 should be depreciated for the Arabic language as is
>> ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA (U+0674) and the new hamza should be named 'ARABIC
>> LETTER ARABIC HAMZA'
>
> I've been told that a previous proposal to change the properties of
> U+0621 was met by resistance from Persian people claiming that it will
> break existing text where hamza is supposed to disjoin dual joining
> characters.
Maybe Roozbeh Pournader could help.
Or anybody with some idea of Persian!
Or are all experts on the bidi list only?
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