On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote:
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> After all, we already have the case (I can't find it just
> now, but it's there somewhere) of a diacritic-below that gets
> rendered above on some capital letter, but below on the
> corresponding small letter.
>
> --
> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
>
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Tuesday, July 6, 1999
A similar situation arises when Arabic script is used to write Malay.
Unicode(tm) character U=06BD has three dots above it in alone and final
contexts, but the three dots go below in initial and medial position. Cf.
M.B.Lweis' "A handbook of Malay script" (Macmillan, 1954) page 17.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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