Yes, the problem here is that we are using a font renderer in order to decorate a script with non-textual elements. Unicode was not designed with that in mind, and the tajweed symbols fall between the cracks.
One thing I would say at this stage is that Unicode and its advisors are not trying to encode a quran, while we are. This means that we should be prepared to set new standards ourselves where necessary. Perhaps they should be XML, perhaps codepoints, probably a combination. Of course it would be of tremendous benefit if such a standard could be adopted by the Unicode consortium but for various reasons it seems unlikely. Despite that the standard that is used is the one that will become defacto standard, not the one on the unicode web site. So I advise Meor and M Yousif etc to be prepared to set their own definitions here, and set the standard themselves. The Open Document Quranic Encoding Standard starts here. Build it and they will come so to speak, wassalaam abdulhaq
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