Re: Question about small noon

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

As far as I know, it is added to unicode for one single instance in the
Qur'an. BTW, I will attend the Unicode Connference next week as well as talk
there (google: IUC29 milo). Could you guys produce a short list of pressing
issues?

t


Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a question about the small noon, ie unicode 6E8 . Unicode
> define it as a mark. My question is, how is this being used? Is there
> any other use it it besides Qurnic Mushaf?
>
> In Madinah Mushaf, there is only one occurance of it. However, in
> Indian/Pakistan traditon, it is not being used the same way. However,
> what they have is a  small noon, isolated, to represent the missing
> noon in pronunciation (the tajweed rule, tanween followed by a
> sukun/shadda). How about in other tradition?
>
> I'm asking this because I'm thinking of using it for different purpose
> in encoding, which might be usefull.
>
> One more thing, last time I post about my font. No one have a bug
> report/comments/feature request?
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
>
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