Re: Quranic Proposal - Dynamic glyph substitution with OpenType

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On إثنين 14 يونيو 2004 13:03, Thomas Milo wrote:
>
> In order to cut through the red tape, I suggest to build the correct
> Arabic-alone behaviour for hamza using U+0621. We successfully did that
> already for sequences like lam-hamza-alif. We are still working on
> sequences of the type yaa'-hamza-<any connecting letter> as in /yâ
> yaHyà/.
>

 Again, I want to make clear that we are only interested in improving Unicode
 here not in learning the best way to encode the Qur'an using the current
 Unicode Standard with limited support for the Qur'an.

> In the mean time, a proposal should be made to add a new Arabic letter
> floating hamza to the standard that is conditionally equivalent to U+0621.
>

 I'm now a bit confused, you recommended that we don't add more characters
 that are contextual variations of existing characters, but you are proposing
 one here.
 If this is to be proposed then we need to propose the similar characters in
 the proposal too (especially 8).

-- 
Mohammed Yousif
Egypt