>> 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 While I am at it: should Unicode acknowledge that U+0730, U+0733, U+0736, U+073A and U+073D are used with the ARAB script or does this lie outside its competence and jurisdiction? mm
