Re: Arabic Lamalef missing Unicode Ligatures with Tashkeel and/or Shadda on Lam

From: Bob_Hallissy@sil.org
Date: Wed May 28 2008 - 04:24:31 CDT

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    > I would like to discuss one of the current problems Arabic people
    > are facing regarding proper Arabic presentation using Unicode.

    The problem is not with Unicode, but with the fonts you have tried to use
    -- Traditional Arabic and Simplified Arabic fonts on Windows XP, for
    example, do not support the sequences you need, but other fonts do. For
    example this graphic from Microsoft Word is your exact text reformatted
    using a different font:

    Bob


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