On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Soobok Lee wrote:
> Arabic glyph U+0640 (Arabic TATWEEL) looks like Latin hyphen(-).
But this is a joining character (something like a letter). We need
something non-joining.
> Arabic FULLSTOP U+06D4 looks like Latin 'underline' (or 'hyphen' ).
This is a very rare character, only used in Urdu.
> Using hyphen instead of punctuation char NWNJ(U+200C,No-width No joiner)
> may not help but cause confusion to native-Arabic people.
I can't get what you really mean. Using hyphen will not cause confusion of
Arabic users, be sure about it. Hyphen is used in many languages that use
the Arabic script.
roozbeh
