On 8/12/2011 6:41 PM, mmarx wrote:
I attach a Garshuni document from
Beit al-Qammar showing Arab vowel
marks -- just as the Syriac communmties
are using Syriac vowel marks in Arabic
script text -- and (in the second line
on the left) wasla above olaph.
So whatever the status of wasla mark
will be fore Arabic, for Syriac/Garshuni
it is need as a normal mark in normal text.
Unicode cannot encode a combining Wasla (because of various stability
policies), so if Syriac needs a Wasla to be shown only over a letter
or two, one needs to propose precomposed characters for them. Just
like the existing Arabic Alef-Wasla.
Roozbeh
