Re: Arabic quoting characters

From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh_at_google.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:45:28 -0700

They are unified with the double angle quotation marks. Persian also uses
the round version (and if if I remember correctly, Greek too).

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Fayez <michaelfayez_at_hotmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I noticed that double small parentheses that are used in professional
> printing in Arabic presses are not encoded in Unicode. Currently materials
> published for Internet or printed using Microsoft Word these characters are
> substituted with either double quotes " " or left and right double angle
> quotation mark «»
> Here are samples for these characters:
> http://i.imgur.com/D0pr5PG.jpg
> from book of confessions of Tolstoy printed in 1930 in Cairo page 47
>
> http://i.imgur.com/aAgRDq1.jpg
> From dostor Egyptian newspaper of June,11th, 2013 page 4. The whole
> edition can be found here http://dostor.org/component/digital/edition/175
> all online editions are here
>
> http://dostor.org/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A
>
>
> So does Unicode Consortium has an official position regarding these 2
> characters? Are they unified with left and right double angle quotation
> mark «»?
>
Received on Fri Jun 14 2013 - 13:45:28 CDT

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