Joining Arabic Letters

2012-03-30 Thread Andreas Prilop
I come back to http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m03/thread.html#11 A similar problem of showing non-joining, isolated Arabic glyphs can be seen in the attached file. Both Internet Explorer 8 and MS Word 2010 display isolated glyphs in some cases. I think a better idea is to

Re: Joining Arabic Letters

2012-03-30 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2012-03-30, Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote: I think a better idea is to have joining glyphs always even for different typefaces. At least the Unicode Standard should say what should happen when Arabic characters of different typefaces follow each other. How can it? Unicode

Re: [unicode] Re: vertical writing mode of modern Yi?

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew West
On 29 March 2012 02:28, mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: My observation is only in imported bookstores in Japan, and some photos taken by the foreign visitors. I expected more living vertical texts of Yi may exist in China, but it might be too optimistic... I wouldn't expect to see

Re: Joining Arabic Letters

2012-03-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
Not really. Even if there is only one typeface involved, the joining behavior of Arabic letters is normative and in scope. This means that even if there's a font change between two letters (for example due to a fallback for some letters or diacritics), each letter should contonue to adopt its