On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> Relevant to this e-mail thread is also the general
> recommendation from Unicode consortium to NOT use
> Arabic presentation forms characters, which are there
> for purely political reasons.
The question is not if one should use them, but for what
they should be used.
Documents should not use them; they should use the relevant
sections starting at 0x620.
But glyphs for a font cannot be encoded this way, so an application
which wants to display arabic must use a different font encoding.
This is what the region of the presentation forms is used for.
I think this is legitimate, as it makes life simpler.
Otherwise one would have to declare that there is no such thing as a unicode
font for arabic, and would have to agree upon a way of encoding fonts.
For the Devanagari script, this already has to be done; no ligature
forms are in unicode.
Karl
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