Re: General Digest, Vol 41, Issue 11

[Klaus Lagally <lagally at informatik dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

> From: koray <nixstore at gmail dot com>
> Subject: Lam-Alif and ISO-8859-6
> 
> We are working on a project about converting IBM EBCDIC 420 - Arabic to 
> ISO-8859-6 Arabic. We use iconv utility to convert the charset.But after 
> conversion we cannot see the Lam-Alif character on linux systems 
> (suse,redhat,debian etc.).I've read various documents and saw that 
> Lam-Alif character doesnt exist in ISO-8859-6.  So, i want to ask you, 
> how did you see,use,print etc. the Lam-Alif character on Linux systems 
> before UTF-8? I need your advices.( By the way, there is no problem with 
> utf-8 but we have to convert to iso-8859-6 )

ISO 8859-6 is a character encoding, not a glyph encoding. Lam-ALif is not
a character but a glyph ligature to be produced by the rendering software.
IIRC there also is no Lam-Alif in UTF-8, for the same reason. It MAY be
present with the Arabic Presentation Forms; cannot presently check that.

HTH

Klaus
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