On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:32:21PM +0200, Andreas Prilop wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >> According to "Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch" by Wolfdietrich Fischer, > >> page 9, the "ya" is written two dots in such cases, too. > > > > Except that this is not a Yaa and not pronounced like a Yaa, it is an > > Alef (note the small dagger Alef above it). > > That is exactly what I meant and exactly what is written in W. Fischer. > > My point is that there are two dots below.
No, there aren't, at least in orthographies that differentiate between Yaa and Alef Maqsura by dots. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
