Ken Whistler> ... The "Guinean Ken Whistler> damma with dot" is encoded as:
Ken Whistler> U+08FD ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT Ken Whistler> Importantly, however, the issue is moot at this point. These decisions were Ken Whistler> taken some time ago, and the technical ballots have passed. Ken Whistler> People who have feedback on issues like this need to get involved Ken Whistler> earlier on, when proposals are first made, and for sure when Ken Whistler> approvals first start appearing in the Pipeline Table: Ken Whistler> http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html Ken Whistler> If a proposed character (or script or collection of symbols) is marked Ken Whistler> in yellow or green in that table, there is still a chance to provide Ken Whistler> feedback Ken Whistler> and potentially influence an encoding decision. But once a proposed Ken Whistler> character reaches ISO Stage 6 in that table (signaled by the Ken Whistler> table entry turning to white), it is too late -- the character in question Ken Whistler> has passed its ballotting and is part of the standard(s). Ken Whistler> At this point, regarding the dammas in question, it is a matter Ken Whistler> instead of providing appropriate documentation of equivalence Ken Whistler> (or non-equivalence) in use and explaining when one might want Ken Whistler> to use one variant or another in text. Ken Whistler> --Ken Dear Ken, I am not an expert in matters Unicode or ISO, but it looks to me like a horrible mistake to CREATE a new letter/marks where none exists. Until now damma is damma is short u, and it seems to be that damma with dot is o or a close variant of it everywhere where Arabic script is used. I fear that if Unicode creates a RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT where up till now only damma with dot (albeit in the proper local style) exists, chaos will be the result: Christian missionaries will use the new Unicoded arrowhead and Muslims will use fonts that display almost the same shape (sometimes a bit rounder sometimes rotated by 45° to the right) at the proper place, just as they will have a properly shaped damma. And if you want to be consistend you HAVE TO encode an "Guinean" damma to: ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITHOUT DOT Arno
