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Re: Question about small noon

Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Tom,
> Who are "we"?

DecoType
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http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/decotype/
http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lsp/conferences/ridt98/decotype.html

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> Will this introduce a new code for hamza? Care to
> eloborate?

To the contrary. One and the same code point U+0621 can remain to be used.
To force its "amphibious" behaviour, we are using the Arabic LOCALE setting.
By default, U+0621 remains the Persian hamza that it really is.

t

> On 3/14/06, Thomas Milo <t dot milo at chello dot nl> wrote:
>> Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>>>> Thomas Milo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tatweel is not a grapheme. I have come to the conclusion, that the
>>>>> letter shaping mechanism needs a new catagory: amphibuous
>>>>> (literally "between both", between skeleton and vowel as a
>>>>> category, as well as placed between two surrounding letters - with
>>>>> optional and separately encoded tatweel. This idea handles the
>>>>> problems with hamza U+0621, superscript alef, trailing/superscript
>>>>> retroflex and possibly even the superscript waw. Think of it, if
>>>>> you will.
>>>> It's a lot simpler if you define tatweel as a chameleon instead of
>>>> a frog.  ;)  It takes on ink or not depending on the inking of its
>>>> neighbors, and it can bear stacking characters.  Simple and
>>>> elegant.
>>
>> We have now a working amphibious hamza, as well as a Trashideh
>> mechanisme that deals with callgraphically misplaced tatweels.
>>
>> t
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