From: Andreas Prilop (andreasprilopwww@trashmail.net)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 11:34:58 CDT
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> What's the Unicode way to write Arabic "swash letter ya"
>> U+06D2 - but with two dots below as U+064A ?
>> 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.
But U+064A (with dots) and U+06CC are also "stylistic variants".
Yet they have two code positions in Unicode and are thus
regarded as two different characters.
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