On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Leisher wrote:

> ZWJ is not compulsory for any cases I can think of at the moment, but is often
> used to present stand-along initial, medial and final shapes in the Arabic
> script, and is used to present stand-alone subordinate (subjoined) consonant
> shapes in the Indic scripts.

It is really important in Persian, since the isolated form of HEH is
not acceptable for representation of initials, abbreviations, etc. All
those who lack the ZWJ support in their typesetting software, use a
TATWEEL instead of that, and are angry with it...

--roozbeh


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