Re: Tanween variants and Unicode : Question about code 0658

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

Hi meor,

Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Salam to all,
> Does anyone knows about this code? The description says ARABIC MARK
> NOON GNUNNA, then further describe it as Kashmiri and Baluchi,
> nazalization in Urdu. I think I've not seen the mark before, and it is
> difficult to know how exactly does it look like from Unicode document.

U+0658 ARABIC MARK NOON GHUNNA is a supplement to the U+06BA ARABIC LETTER
NOON GHUNNA (an undotted noon for Urdu), for disambiguation in non-final
positions. It looks like the Latin BREVE mark (bottom half of circle)

> Previously, I thought of using this code to indicate the
> sequential/assimilated tanween (seems the most logical choice), but
> however it does have problems when trying to implement it under
> windows.

Why not use U+06E8 SMALL NOON ABOVE which presently serves only one instance
in the whole of the Qur'an, or the history of Arabic literacy for that
matter?

t