Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-10 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Majid Bhurgri wrote: There are scores of words and instances in Arabic and other languages which use Arabic script where a word is split in two parts by not letting two letters join which would normally be joined. Non breaking zero width space facilitates such

Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-10 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Majid Bhurgri wrote: On Tues, 10 Oct 2000, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: It's somehow weird for me, and if it were me, I would have considered it non-joining. Why would it appear between two letters that would otherwise join? Arabic cannot be broken between the joining

Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-10 Thread Majid Bhurgri
PROTECTED] To: "Majid Bhurgri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes Tuesday, October 10, 2000 Am I correct in thinking t

RE: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-10 Thread Carl W. Brown
AIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:37 AM To: Unicode List Cc: Unicode List Subject: Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Majid Bhurgri wrote: There are scores of words and instances in Arabic and other languages which use Arabic script where a

Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-09 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Roozbeh asked: In TUS 3.0, page 192, Table 8-2, it is said all "format mark"s are considered transparent. What is the exact definition of "format mark"? If it's the class "Cf", is ZWNBSP included? The intention of the author of this text was "format marks" in the context of the

Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
In TUS 3.0, page 192, Table 8-2, it is said all "format mark"s are considered transparent. What is the exact definition of "format mark"? If it's the class "Cf", is ZWNBSP included?