On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> ZWJ's main usage is for writing abbreviations. Because the isolated form
> of Heh is somehow similiar to the arabic form of digit 5, the initial form
> is used in abbreviations. So a ZWJ should be used after the Heh to make it
> right. One common example in Persian is:
>
> 0647 200D 002E 0020 0634 002E
> HEH ZWJ FULL-STOP SPACE SHEEN FULL-STOP
>
> which means "in solar years after Hijrah".
Right.
> I can't find any common usage for ZWJ at the beginning of lines, the only
> reason for its appearance may be exhibiting the joining variants
> themselves, e.g. in an email about adding Arabic support to xterm ;)
Ok, that's good - as it means ZWJ can also be implemented as a
pseudo-combining character.
Do ZWJ/ZWNJ interactions matters : i.e.
FOO ZWJ ZWNJ BAR
could be rendered as
<foo-init> <bar-isol>
Is this important to implement?
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