Hi Mete, Meor, Again, many thanks and congratulations with your exhaustive work. Regarding the hamza, I fully agree with you, Mete. Again, to unicode cut red tape, it's totally harmless to treat U+0621 as the transparent letter it really is - as long as this is done within an Arabic locale. Once this change is made (we are working on a solution along this lines, also OT adepts should try this ), the concept is proven and a new Arabic Letter Transparent Hamza can be requested for Unicode.
t Mete Kural wrote: > 3) Hamza: The good old hamza... Unfortunately in Unicode the > chairless hamza 0621 is defined as a character that disconnects > adjacent connecting characters. And we can no longer fix this > situation by re-defining 0621 because it breaks backwards > compatibility with Farsi and possibly some other languages that use > hamza as a disconnecting character. As we know no hamza ever breaks > the connection between adjacent connecting characters in the Quran. > So character 0621 as it is defined today should not be used for > encoding the Quran. So the solution is to propose a new chairless > hamza character that is defined not to break the connection. Until > such a character is added to Unicode just use 0621 for now as if it > is the new proposed chairless hamza that does not break connections.
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