Re: Arabic wasla in Unicode

["Chahine M. Hamila" <HALCON11 at terra dot es>]

"N. Heer" a *crit :

>   I have never seen a waslah that was not written
> over an alif except in grammar books or dictionaries.

Wondering if this exception shouldn't be enough of a good reason to want to
integrate it to the Unicode encodings since these want to represent even the
most esoteric characters.

>  (snip) If one needed to
> have waslah by itself in a font, why not just consider it a glyph rather
> than a part of the character set?

Mmmmm... not impossible through hacks... But then, we could find ourselves with
zillions of incompatible ways to represent it when storing text (unless I
misunderstood you). So the cleanest way imho is that it should indeed be
standardized one way or another and include it in a (common, standard) charset.

Regards,
Chahine