Re: [Bug 54697] New: ALEF MAKSURA shows up as a square at the middle or at the start of a word

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:

> Seeing that this is a Unicode issue, and frankly I don't have the stamina
> to go on a marthon with the Unicode folks over this.. I recommend the fonts 
> themselves add a redundant glyph for the ALEF MAKSURA for now.

BTW, the XFree86 10x20 bitmap font contains glyphs for medial and initial
form of ALEF MAKSURA. I use this font when I use KBabel to make sure I
have all the necessary glyphs for Unicode compliance. A new version, with
all new Unicode 4.0 glyphs that can fit in a 10x20 box (which means all
new Arabic characters minus U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN
AR-ARRAHEEM) are available at:

	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

roozbeh