Re: Arabic wasla in Unicode

[Ibrahim El-Shafei <shaffei at softhome dot net>]

Nice to meet you Miika,
Did you try this site www.arabeyes.org?

Yours,
Ibrahim El-Shafei
"HimaTech"

Imagination is better than knowledge
	--Albert Einstein

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 17:25, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> For those who don't know me yet, my name is Miikka-Markus Alhonen (Miikka for
> short) and I've been subscribed to this list for a while now, although I have
> been quite passive till today :) I have studied Arabic for a couple of years
> now and I'm most interested in creating an Arabic-friendly environment in
> Linux. I've participated in development of the Unicode editor Yudit and some
> other Unicode-related projects, too.
> 
> Now I would like to ask you as Arabic language users to comment on my proposal
> on adding Arabic wasla in Unicode (can you imagine it's still missing ?!). You
> can find the document (PDF) at http://www.tigatieto.com/wasla.pdf (~ 100 kB)
> 
> I'm contacting you because I'm not a native speaker of Arabic, myself, and I've
> never done an official Unicode proposal, either. So, I would be more than
> grateful of any assistance you can give.
> 
> The specific problem I have in mind at the moment, is fonts. Does anyone of you
> know of a font which would include wasla on its own, i.e. not on top of alif?
> What about other computer standards apart from Unicode? Also, I'm not sure if I
> should try making such a font myself for the Unicode charts (TTF's are very
> troublesome) or should I just tell the UTC to use the glyph for "alif wasla"
> without the "alif" part. Well, maybe I'll discuss this with somebody who's a
> real Unicode expert.
> 
> In any case, I wish you luck with all of your Arabeyes projects. You're doing a
> great job!
> 
> Best regards!
> 
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> E-Mail: Miikka-Markus Alhonen <Miikka-Markus dot Alhonen at tigatieto dot com>
> Date: 05-Jan-02
> Time: 17:25:31
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