Salaam Mohammad, I emailed Thomas Milo and sent him a link to your Quranic Glyphs Proposal PDF file and he sent me the following feedback. I am copying his email regarding Arabeyes.org's Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal below.
I think that once you sign up for [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can further discuss these matters with him and others. Regards, Mete Here is his email: --- Thomas Milo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mete, > > I took a quick look and concluded that the document > is a bit misguided. I > call it so, because Unicode does not encode GLYPHS, > it encodes CHARACTERS. > > As you may have observed on the Unicode mailing > list, I just tabled this > subject. In observed, among others, that what this > proposal calls > "sequential fathatan" etc. can just as well be > called "repeated fatha" etc., > after all, we have already a repeated dhamma. In > that case no new CHARACTERS > are needed. the GLYPH for "repeated fatha" etc. can > be substituted by font > technology. In Egyptian style, you expect two > slightly offset fatha's, in > Magribi style, they are typically sequential, i.e., > next to each other. > > There is no need to include ligatures including > trailing alifs etc., because > the Unicode standard is not a glyph list. The block > of Presentation Forms > should be ignored, it was a mistake. > > Moreover, the proposal overlooks the problem with > the zero consonant that we > were pursuing last year. > > More follows, > > Regards, > > t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
