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

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 13:29, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, I saw these two glyphs but they simply have nothing to do with
Arabic.
There are a lot of glyphs in "Arabic Presentation Froms B" as defined
by unicode that have nothing to do with Arabic.
It doesn't matter if the glyph I'm seeing is a square or any other symbol
that is un-related to Arabic (even if unicode says that this is for AlefMaksura).
An Arabic user will not like the square glyph, but he/she of course will
be even more dissatisfied if he/she sees a weird glyph instead of the
square.
So it will not help to provide the user with un-appropriate glyphs for
non-existent letter forms.

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Mohammed Yousif
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