Hello! As we all (should) know, the Manday (Mandaean, Mandaic) alphabet is located in the U+0840 - U+085F codepoint range—that houses the normal (isolate form) letters HALQA through TA, the ligatures ADU and AKEDI, and the Arabic-derived letter AYN (besides some overstruck accents and spacing punctuation signs of its own); another ligature—the LA-HALQA ligature—is to be typed as a sequence of LA followed immediately by HALQA (as it represents the corresponding Arabic ligature LAM-ʾALIF).
That process (just described) takes care of the *basic* set of the Manday alphabet; how about assigning codepoints to their *contextual forms* (isolate, initial, medial, and final)?! Do you put these into the Private Use Zone Area, *or* set aside a range of *unencoded* points for them (named with numbers having a leading underline [_] character, like the contextual forms for Devanagari)?! What’d you all think?! The VOLT utility should be called upon at some point... Thank You! Robert Lloyd Wheelock International Symbolism Research Institute Augusta, ME U.S.A.
