Re: Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 10:36, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>
> OK, I think I captured what you note above in the proposal.
>
>   http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/tmp/qu_prop.pdf
>
> Do please give it a careful read and report back any issues.
> If the doc still makes sense :-) and is clear enough to follow,
> we are ready to submit it.  I believe there are NO other issues
> that require Unicode's attention with regard to this matter, is
> that correct ?
>

 Well, there is something missing that I just noticed, it's
 0670 (Arabic Letter Superscript Alef), it works just fine
 when I use a tatweel below it (i.e. Al-Baqara 9) or there is
 a character that should be below it (i.e. Al-Baqara 7), but there
 are lots of places in the Qur'an where a tatweel cannot be used
 as that small alef is expected to be a standalone character not
 just a haraka like fatha or damma (Al-Baqara 22 word 5).
 There are already some characters that is very much like this
 situation, they solved it by using two characters, one is transparent
 like fatha and 0670 and the other is a standalone character
 (see 06E7 "works like 0670", 06E6 "we need a character like
 that for the small alef").
 I'm proposing 0659 (Arabic Small Alef) to be used for the new
 glyph which is the same as 0670 but not transparent and lower.

 Nadim, everytime we say "yes, it's finished now" another thing
 pops out but I hope that there are no remaining issues