Re: Arabic Jazm Urdu

From: Vinodh Rajan (vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 19 2011 - 10:59:48 CST

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    Thanks !

    This is what I was lookin' for.

    Just one thing - The feature of Sukun must be set to "Open down" to get the
    Jazm Variant.

    V

    On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Bob Hallissy <Bob_Hallissy@sil.org> wrote:

    > On 2011-03-17 at 10:19 CE Whitehead wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> While fonts are being discussed, does anyone know what font will
    >> display the jazm character (currently encoded as a variant of the
    >> sukun, U+0652) properly for Urdu?
    >>
    >
    > You might try a variant of SIL's Scheherazade. This font has a number of
    > tunable features which can be selected via SIL TypeTuner. Visit
    > http://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi, select Scheherazade, set the
    > "Sukun" feature to "Open Left", and then click on "Get tuned font" to
    > download a Scheherazade variant with the alternate sukun.
    >
    > I'll be interested to know if this does what you want.
    >
    > Bob Hallissy
    > SIL Non-Roman Script Initiative
    >
    >
    >

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