On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:42 -0500, Bob Hallissy wrote: > Wondering if anyone knows (or has an educated guess): > > When an Arabic combining character sequence includes both > * U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE and > * an Arabic vowel mark above (e.g., U+064E ARABIC FATHA or maybe > U+065A ARABIC VOWEL SIGN SMALL V ABOVE), > should the maddah be rendered above the vowel, or the vowel above the > maddah?
Definitely the madda above the vowel, to take care of Koranic scenarios. For example, some annotation styles of the Koran may commonly include the sequence <WAW, DAMMA, MADDA> to indicate an elongated [u:] sound. There, the madda clearly goes over the damma. Roozbeh
