Re: OT: Haikus for Unicode-Haters

[Shlomi Tal]

You're right, but neither Monogolian nor Indic fits the 5-7-5 syllable constraint of haiku. Ben-ga-li-Sha-ping maybe? :-)

But anyway, as I've been reading on Thomas Milo's (Decotype) paper on Arabic recently refered to here, Arabic typography isn't so simple once you get out of the simplified printing-Arabic paradigm.

I have been using Arabic on computers since 1993, on Accent Software's word processor Dagesh (a multiscript word processor for Windows 3.x). The shaping mechanism for Arabic hasn't changed since. And I read this implementation goes back to the Apple Mac Arabic word processor "Al-Kaatib Ad-Dawli", in the late 1980s.

ST

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