> They needed to represent the shape in CP1256. They figured that TEH
> MARBUTA is similiar in joining behaviour, and replaced the glyphs in the
> fonts.
Thank you. I'm learning a lot here!

>  (If I were
> doing that in their time, I would have used DAMMATAN, drawing a HAMZA
> ABOVE as a replacement glyph.)

I'm sorry. You're dealing with a real blockhead here and I'm slow to
understand but could you please explain why they needed to *replace*
anything. Couldn't they have just *added* so we'd have dammatan, teh
marbuta AND heh+hamze.

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