Hi, Bahman: I'm not Arabic and certainly don't speak Urdu but sometime back there was a discussion about the jazm character and the sukun and I lifted the following information from it:
From: Bahman Eslami <eslami.bahman_at_gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:17:04 +0330 > Hi, > I'm developing a typeface that contains most of arabic Unicode > characters > (farsi, urdu, sindhi & etc) and I need to see how they are > used in a text/context, so I'll be able to make informed decision about > character glyphs. for example I can't find any example that shows how > "Arabic Year Sign" would be used in a text. If you could provide me > detailed information of arabic characters in unicode, it would be a > great help. specifically characters in usage in the script before their > inclusion in digital typefaces. I also add that I red the chapter 8 of > Unicode standard but It doesn't have any examples that shows the usage > of characters in a text. I need something like this: >unicode.org/review/pr-171-rub-el-hizb.pdf > <http://unicode.org/review/pr-171-rub-el-hizb.pdf> > but about the other characters like "Arabic Year Sign". U+6E1 (Arabic jazm; display form for Arabic sukun in Q'uranic Arabic when the font does not display properly) versus U+652 (sukiun).Note: there's no specifically Urdu jazm encoded; the link to the proposal is just for a description. 1. http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/newurdu/specials.html (General info.) 2. http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2413-4.pdf (Proposal not accepted; but scroll through this to see samples!) 3. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m03/att-0126/01-testsukunjazm.html (This last is a test showing how the two characters display in actual fonts as encoded below: <style type="text/css"> div.quranicarabic { font-family: "Tahoma"; } div.nonquranicarabic { font-family: "Arabic Transparent, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode"; } div.urdu { font-family: Tahoma"; }</style> <body> <div class="quranicarabic"> <p align="left">Q'uranic Arabic (note I only show the first few characters of the word)</p> <p lang="ar">للۡك</p> <p align="left" lang="ar" dir="ltr">lil XU06E1;kaafiyiina</p> </div> <div class="nonquranicarabic"> <p align="left">Everyday Arabic (standard)</p> <p lang="ar"> للْك </p> <p align="left" lang="ar" dir="ltr"> lil #U0652 kaafiyiina </p> </div> <div class="urdu"> <p align="left">now for Urdu</p> <p lang="ur">للْن</p> There are however some other fonts for displaying this character that I did not download with my fear of downloading anything!!) Hope this helps for these characters. Sincerely, --C. E. [email protected] > thanks in advance, > Bahman > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Bahman Eslami > eslami.bahman_at_gmail.com
