John Hudson wrote: > 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.
I wonder how such a glyph (the 4th from right, I mean) should be encoded. I'd suggest HEH ZWJ ZWNJ (U+0647 U+200D U+200C). _ Marco
