On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:37:53PM +0200, Andreas Prilop wrote: > I come back to > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m03/thread.html#11 > > A similar problem of showing non-joining, isolated Arabic glyphs > can be seen in the attached file. Both Internet Explorer 8 and > MS Word 2010 display isolated glyphs in some cases. > > I think a better idea is to have joining glyphs always even for > different typefaces. At least the Unicode Standard should say > what should happen when Arabic characters of different typefaces > follow each other.
OpenOffice/LibreOffice work around this by conditionally inserting ZWJ when there is a font switch in the middle of the word and joining is desired. Regards, Khaled
