Re: Arabic swash letter Ya with dots

From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 10:59:52 CDT

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On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Andreas Prilop wrote:
> What's the Unicode way to write Arabic "swash letter ya"
> U+06D2 - but with two dots below as U+064A ?
>
> Such a letter is shown, for example, in
> http://www.alquds.co.uk/alquds.gif

This is a mere stylistic variant of U+064A, unlike U+06D2 that has
different semantics in Urdu.

So, this is a mutter of using proper font, possibly an OpenType (or AAT)
font with the needed glyph substitution rules.

Regards,
Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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