I wish to restate my position. I'm CC-ing Michael Everson, a Unicode expert in script naming. Michael, would you please tell us if Connie is right here?
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:49, C Bobroff wrote: > > Yes, all those script are called Arabic in scientific circles.
No, the others are, in scientific circles said to be in "Perso-Arabic script."
Not since the 19th century.
> You can also say "a modified form of the Arabic script" but that > is what is meant by "Perso-Arabic script." Just "Arabic script" only > applies to the Arabic language.
This is not correct.
What Ms Bobroff is doing is confusing character and glyph, I believe. It us true that the Arabic script has many variant styles, but this does not mean that those styles are or should be encoded as different characters. The ARABIC LETTER BEH which is used in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Kurdish, Kashmiri, Malay, Balochi, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uighur, etc. is the SAME intrinsic character in all of them. It has right-to-left directionality. It has a nominal, initial, medial, and final form which connects to other letters.
Arabic script can be written or otherwise displayed in a number of styles, such as Kufi, Nastaliq, Naskh, and Maghrebi. But all varieties are ways of writing the same essential characters, and because of that, it is correct to speak of only one "script".
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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