RE: Arabic aleph representation of glyphs

From: CE Whitehead (cewcathar@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 16:26:42 CST

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    Hi, thanks for your comments.
     
    > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:20:22 +0100
    > From: prilop4321@trashmail.net
    > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Arabic aleph representation of glyphs
    >
    > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, CE Whitehead wrote:
    >
    > > Now . . . for my questions:
    > > [...]
    >
    > Sorry, I find your message still confusing and I still wonder
    > what you actually want.
    >
    > I have a few remarks for you:
    >
    >> 1) You should not use any letters from the "Presentation Forms"
    >> at all. They are just for compatibility with older charsets.
     
    Thanks; I read that but forgot -- these characters certainly do not display properly in some browsers.
    >
    > 2) Programs (including webbrowsers) are not perfect in displaying
    > right-to-left text. You are better off when you specify text
    > direction explicitly. In HTML, you should always write
    > <... dir=rtl> or <... dir=ltr> See
    > http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/charset/text-direction.html
    > http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bidirectional-text.html
    {O.k. I usually do specify both direction and script or language}
    >
    > 3) The sequence U+0629 U+064B does exist at the end of a word.
    Yes and only at the end of a word. Thanks for going to all this trouble.
    > The sequence U+0629 U+064B U+0627 does *not* exist in Arabic.

    Yes I was corrected on the latter.
    --C. E. Whitehead
    cewcathar@hotmail.com
                                                   



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