Dear all, Recently, someone pointed out to me that I uses the wrong character to generate the quran text. This is mainly due to my ignorance in Arabic/Quranic language. I really need to straight things out to get it correct. Last time, visually it is correct. However, the encoding wise it might not be. All questions is referring to Madinah Mushaf. (For those who don't know, I don't speak arabic)
1. Need to confirm about final yeh. Is it true that all occurances of final yeh is written without the dots? 2. Seems like most referrence I could find saying that alef maksura occurs only in final forms (for arabic, other languages does have medial and initial form). I think the word ila (to) , uses alef maksura (correct me if I'm wrong). However, when the words become ilaina ( to us), it uses yeh, right? So, may I know which words uses alef maksura, or it's rule? 3. There are instances in quran where the small alef have chair. Last time I encode it as alef maksura + small alef. I think for final alef maksura is correct, but it is wrong when it occurs in initial or medial forms. Example: Sura 104 aya 5(initial) and sura 102 aya 1 (medial). I chose alefmaksura because it seems like it is alef. However, from above, seems like alef maksura only occur in final form. So, it should be a different character. So, what character it should be? Someone suggest it is dotless ba. If it is true, can someone explain, the use (description) of dotless ba? Unicode document does not say much. 4. Hamza on yeh (U+0626). Should I use this character or not?Mr Yousif (Quran Project leader) against the use of it. Instead, suggest to use yeh + hamza above/below. Because I want to make it compatible with him, I uses alef maksura + hamza above/below. However, seems like it is wrong. I choose alef maksura over yeh because to make it compatible with other font (other font most likely to render the yeh with dots). The other problem is, in unicode document, it specifically mentioned hamza "above". However, in the mushaf, it render the hamza depending on context, either above or below. In my font implementation, the hamza will appear depending on the mark, so no problem. However, other font might not be "intelligent" enough. So, the question again, should 0626 be use? I personally think it should be use. The problem of above or below, we just need to educate unicode and other vendors. Wassalam.
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