Re: Arabic wasla in Unicode

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

I'm so sorry I though this is the mailing af handasa arabia so I wanted
to tell them about the arabeyes.

sorry again :)

Yours,
HimaTech

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:20, Ibrahim El-Shafei wrote:
> 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!
> > 
> > ----------------------------------
> > 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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