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 Yousif wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 17:03, Mohammed Yousif wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I meant A not B, sorry

Indeed. the "Arabic" in all Unicode blocks is for Arabic *script*, not for
Arabic language.

Well, this reminds me of a debate in Arabic Internet Names Consortium
about Feh with three dots above and Feh with three dots below. They said:  
"No, it's not in Arabic, we don't want it in domain names, it's not in
Koran". But we were meeting in Tunisia then, and all the walls were filled
with advertisements of VIVA, written using that Feh with three dots below
for /v/, and also SAMSUNG, which used Qaf with three dots above for the
/g/ sound!

roozbeh