Re: Hamza U+0621

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

Meor,

I suppose you are discussing flaws of OpenType?

t


Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Mete,
> Last time I tried, I did have problems to make it work in both
> situation. If I were to make it work for the lam alef with floating
> hamza, it does not work in the second case. If I were to make it work
> for the second case, the first case does not work. That's why in the
> text, for the first case it was encode as lam hamza alef, whereby the
> second case was encoded with tatweel hamza above . This is just to
> make it visually correct. There might be a way to accomplish this, but
> we might need some help from experts it this (maybe from MS). This is
> becasue I'm not sure why it does not work; It should have been. There
> might be a bug somewhere (not sure where).
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 9/20/05, Mete Kural <metek at touchtonecorp dot com> wrote:
>> Hello Meor,
>> 
>> Were you successful in getting U+0621 to render correctly in words
>> like al-aakhira in aya 2:4 and ya'aadamu in aya 2:33 with the new
>> font you're developing in both Windows and Linux? Can you use U+0621
>> in al-aakhira and  have your font render it correctly or does
>> Uniscribe and Pango not allow you to do that?    
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mete
>> 
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