On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> Arabic shapes operate mainly on the script level; they are different
> appearances of the same letter within the flow of script. There are
> some exceptions from this rule, such as the use of the final form of
> the letter HEH to denote Hijri dates or sometimes the use of
> joined/non-joined variants to denote either parts from the middle of a
> word or composite words in non-Arabic languages, but these are
> comparatively rare and, in most cases, tied to the simple factor of
> whether or not a word border is present at the respective point.
Just a note about the usage of non-joiner (not much related to the topic,
only correcting you):
The use of non-joiner in Persian (using the Arabic script) is not rare. It
is obligatory in some common words, and the usage is increasing (some
words that were previously written without the non-joiner, are being
written more and more using it).
I can provide examples if anyone's interested.
roozbeh
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