Re: Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 18:56, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> > > It's already there:
> > > 0305 COMBINING OVERLINE (=overscore) (connects on left and right)
> > > (it's used in Japanese) (used to be called non-spacing overscore)
> >
> > Does it really behave like the sajda line? (i.e. following the behaviors
> > I explained)
>
> M.Yousif, could you please test to see how this glyph behaves ?  If it
> doesn't do what we think it should, we need to simply mention this problem
> in our proposal to get a reaction from unicode (ie. since we won't know
> how to specify it, we can simply mention the expected behavior we need).
>
 
 Just tried it on Qt,Gtk and MS-Windows giving varying results but all of them
 are not what we expect. (for example they are fixed at a Y-axis position
 that is usually not consistent with harakat so it's not suitable for Arabic.
 Also, the implementations are even making it a spacing character)
 I think what you mentioned, Nadim, is the appropriate thing to do.

 Any other comments?