> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:47:24 GMT > From: Julian Bradfield <[email protected]> > > In Arabic, the variant of a letter is determined entirely by its > position, so there is no compelling need to represent the forms separately > (as characters rather than glyphs) save for the existence of legacy > standards (and if there is, you can use the ZWJ/ZWNJ hacks). Thus the > forms would not have been encoded but for the legacy standards. > Whereas in Hebrew, non-final forms appear finally in certain contexts > in normal text; and in Greek, while Greek text may have a determinate > choice between σ and ς, there are many contexts where the two symbols > are distinguished (not least maths).
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