Re: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-06-14 22:30, Stephan Stiller wrote: On 6/14/2013 11:45 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: They are unified with the double angle quotation marks. Persian also uses the round version (and if if I remember correctly, Greek too). Where can one find such information? It’s somewhat implicit, but

RE: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-15 Thread Michael Fayez
unfortunately. Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:03:07 +0300 From: jkorp...@cs.tut.fi To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Arabic quoting characters 2013-06-14 22:30, Stephan Stiller wrote: On 6/14/2013 11:45 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: They are unified with the double angle quotation marks

Re: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-06-15 21:24, Michael Fayez wrote: And yes as Dough Ewell said characters U+2E28 and U+2E29 can be used in new data. They have the correct shape and properties though with the wrong size unfortunately. Well, U+2E28 has General Category Ps (Punctuation, Open), not Pi (Punctuation, Initial

Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Fayez
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

Re: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-14 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
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 michaelfa...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi all, I noticed that double small parentheses that are used in professional

Re: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Stiller
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Fayez michaelfa...@hotmail.com mailto:michaelfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I noticed that double small parentheses that are used in professional printing in Arabic presses are not encoded in Unicode. [...]http://i.imgur.com/aAgRDq1.jpg So

Re: Arabic quoting characters

2013-06-14 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 14 juin 2013 20:54, Roozbeh Pournader rooz...@google.com a écrit : They are unified with the double angle quotation marks. Persian also uses the round version (and if if I remember correctly, Greek too). Many French texts from the 19th century and early 20th century use them too. In this