Re: Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

Hello Tom,

It's nice to hear from you on this mailing list.

> Well, here's where the difference between glyphs and
> characters is the clue.
> What you see are characters, what you understand are
> characters. For
> instance, you see a ligature (glyph) you understand
> two ore three
> characters. Glyphs are for font technology,
> characters are encoded.

I'm assuming what you meant to say here is:

"What you see are 'glyphs', what you understand are
characters."

-Mete