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Re: License vs. Signatures



On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 19:40 +0300, Abdalla Alothman wrote:
> This message was posted twice yesterday and didn't show up.
> 
> Salam,
> 
> On Friday 13 October 2006 05:49 am, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> >
> > Why can't we have both? Is it too difficult? See below.
> 
> There is absolutely no reason why we can't have them both. It would be nice if
> we can have both. However, the problem is with character coding. Not all the
> symbols used in the 'uthmani standard are used in the Unicode character set.
> So we can wait, or we can use what's available. Of course another option would
> be to convince the Unicode people to add the missing symbols.

This is probably the right solution.

Note that there is a new unicode standard pending.  You might check if
they have picked up the missing characters.

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/

-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child