At 14:27 10/10/2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: >No, it's not a fifth form. It's just the initial form. Since Heh is too >similiar to the Arabic digit five, when refering to the letter, an initial >form is usually used. The glyph in at U+0647 in Unicode charts is just >that...
I know it is based on the initial form, but I have seen a number of typefaces in which it is designed as a separate, variant glyph, the usual characteristic of which is that the left connecting stroke of the initial form is truncated. I've attached a small graphic showing the five forms. John Hudson
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