Roozbeh> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Mark Leisher wrote:
    Roozbeh> Yes, but not as obligatory as Unicode says. I've seen fonts that
    Roozbeh> don't do that, and that's not because of the lack of technology
    Roozbeh> or something like that; it's for aesthetics.

Interesting tidbit.  Is this seen in particular styles like Naskh or is it an
aesthetic technique?
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