Re: Proposal for the Basis of a Codepoint ExtensiontoUnicodefortheEncoding of the Quranic Manuscripts

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

Mete Kural wrote:
>> It still seems to me that the tanween needs to be kept intact

This is a curious turn. Tanween has always been expressed by reduplication
of the vowel marks. Keeping it intact therefore means 1. identifying vowel
marks as graphemes and 2. identifying tanween as a reduplication of existing
vowel graphemes.

The present Unicode solution with single, unique codes for nunated vowels is
a conceptual mistake: the codes now represent the glyphs for nunation, not
the abstract graphemes. As a result search actions based on case endings
(like yawmu-n / al-yawmu) are frustrated.

Regards,

t