Unicode - ligatures

2004-09-18 Thread Peyman
Hi, I hope somebody in the forum answer my question ASAP: What is the use of "Arabic Presentation Forms - A" in Unicode (Range FB50-FDFF). I understand we may use some symbols like /Rial/ by a single code (FDFC)but what I don't understand is the ligatures. Do we need them all If we want to

Re: Unicode - ligatures

2004-09-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hello, In short: You are supposed to ignore both Arabic Presentation Forms blocks. They are not part of the Arabic model of Unicode (except for Rls character of course). Longer answer: Many (lazy) implementations, use the Presentation Forms - B block as a glyph encoding to shape Arabic in the