I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed to the
form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic transliteration of the
word, but when we were doing the examples for RDA we were told by the JSC to
use an apostrophe rather than an alif for all of our examples.
Does it display the same? And are the unicodes the same?
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Adam L. Schiff
asch...@u.washington.eduwrote:
I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed to
the form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic transliteration
of the
No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the same
(even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you search
RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file (copy and
paste), you get no results. If you use an apostrophe
I double checked the ALA file in Connexion client.
and found that Ayin or Ayn, is represented by a reverse comma, much like
rough breathing in Greek.
The aleph is the one with the comma.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Adam L. Schiff
asch...@u.washington.eduwrote:
No they are different
: Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an
No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the
same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you
search RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file
(copy and paste), you get no results
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote:
This may not be at all relevant here, but I have been noticing for at least
a year now that I have difficulty searching anything with an apostrophe in
LC's authority file. If I copy a heading which contains an apostrophe from
the body of a record in
: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:36 PM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an
No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the
same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you
search RDA in the RDA toolkit using
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