On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:42:32PM -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? > > (Combining class doesn't help -- or at least is notoriously misleading > as far as correct rendering of Arabic -- so I'm not trusting it to > provide the correct answer here, either). > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > Bob
Madda above the vowel (the madda prolongates the vowel, not the opposite...) P.T. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
