It's ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA [U+0649]. Its ISOLATED and FINAL
forms are like ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH [U+06CC], so we show it in
the layout as INITIAL form.
But doesn't ALEF MAKSURA appear mostly at the end of words, i.e. in its
final or isolated forms? What's more, in Arabic, when you add a
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote:
What is the character on alt+control+d?
It's the Arabic Alef Maksura. For cases you just need a dandaane in the
middle of a word. Almost always Koranic quotes.
Or maybe that's supposed to be the tatweel??
No, Tatweel is at Shift+-.
And forgive my
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote:
I also have only heard of Alif Maksura used in Arabic only in Final
position, never in initial, medial or isolated.
Please give an example of dandaane which must be a Persian invention in
which case why don't you use Persian Yeh?
[Wearing my Unicode
Who are you addressing here? A fontmaker that is planning to support the
whole Unicode Arabic range? She/he will definitely support them. But a
fontmaker who is only interested in one language? Why in hell should
she/he support them?
Hey, it's the Persian poets who liked to engage in tajnis.
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote:
But doesn't ALEF MAKSURA appear mostly at the end of words, i.e. in its
final or isolated forms?
It does, but that is the Arabic. A normal Persian Yeh is used in Persian
contexts. For example, both words ali and kobraa should be written
(and encoded in
(This is why I found the dotless initial form on your draft
keyboard difficult to interpret.)
Oh! Is THAT what that was.
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