On Yau al-Thulatha 19 Rabi` al-Thaani 1425 05:50 pm, Mete Kural wrote: > > 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.
No no they are CHARACTERS not GLYPHS since they have different meanings. It's not a matter of shape. Some one should explain this Mr. Thomas Milo (already subscribed here) and others involved, am I wrong? > > 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., You mean I need to put two fatha's one behind the others to represent it? Why not? Umm! > > 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. What is the mistake? Presentation Forms? I think Unicode is something you need a lot of reading to understand fully. :( -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
