Re: Pashto yeh characters

From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 10:52:12 CDT

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    On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:32:21PM +0200, Andreas Prilop wrote:
    > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote:
    >
    > >> According to "Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch" by Wolfdietrich Fischer,
    > >> page 9, the "ya" is written two dots in such cases, too.
    > >
    > > Except that this is not a Yaa and not pronounced like a Yaa, it is an
    > > Alef (note the small dagger Alef above it).
    >
    > That is exactly what I meant and exactly what is written in W. Fischer.
    >
    > My point is that there are two dots below.

    No, there aren't, at least in orthographies that differentiate between
    Yaa and Alef Maqsura by dots.

    -- 
     Khaled Hosny
     Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
     Free font developer
    


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