Quoting John Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Amir, you are misunderstanding the nature of Unicode. Unicode is a > *character* encoding standard, and the glyphs in the charts are intended > only as a visual guide suggesting normative shapes for those characters. In > the case of Arabic, a single character codepoint is assigned to each > letter, regardless of the shaping required for that letter.
Thanks for correcting me John. > In the Unicode > charts, Arabic characters are typically represented by glyphs showing their > > isolated form, unless it is another form that is distinctive (e.g. the Urdu > > heh goal). It is the purpose of higher level glyph shaping software -- > usually a combination of script shaping engine (e.g. MS Uniscribe) and > intelligent font format (e.g. OpenType) -- to represent this character with > > glyphs appropriate to the position in a word and responsive to other > factors affecting shaping. For more information, you might read my article > 'Windows Glyph Processing' at > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/default.htm. > If this is the case, why in Unicode it have Arabic Presentation A & C to present the final, medial, and initial form of Arabic characters? -Amir > The only problem with U+06AC as it is currently represented in the Unicode > charts is that the glyph is a poor and misleading visual guide because it > does not represent the more common form of this letter in Jawi. > > John Hudson > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If meaning is inherently public and rule-governed, then the > fact that I can't read 'Treasure Island' without visualising > Long John Silver as a one-legged version of my grandmother > is of interest only to my psychotherapist and myself. > Terry Eagleton > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been sent from JARING webmail. Get your JARING account now!
