Re: Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

Salaam Mohammad,

I emailed Thomas Milo and sent him a link to your
Quranic Glyphs Proposal PDF file and he sent me the
following feedback. I am copying his email regarding
Arabeyes.org's Unicode Quranic Glyphs Proposal below.

I think that once you sign up for bidi at unicode dot org you
can further discuss these matters with him and others.

Regards,
Mete

Here is his email:

--- Thomas Milo <t dot milo at chello dot nl> wrote:
> Dear Mete,
> 
> I took a quick look and concluded that the document
> is a bit misguided. I
> call it so, because Unicode does not encode GLYPHS,
> it encodes CHARACTERS.
> 
> As you may have observed on the Unicode mailing
> list, I just tabled this
> subject. In observed, among others, that what this
> proposal calls
> "sequential fathatan" etc. can just as well be
> called "repeated fatha" etc.,
> after all, we have already a repeated dhamma. In
> that case no new CHARACTERS
> are needed. the GLYPH for "repeated fatha" etc. can
> be substituted by font
> technology. In Egyptian style, you expect two
> slightly offset fatha's, in
> Magribi style, they are typically sequential, i.e.,
> next to each other.
> 
> There is no need to include ligatures including
> trailing alifs etc., because
> the Unicode standard is not a glyph list. The block
> of Presentation Forms
> should be ignored, it was a mistake.
> 
> Moreover, the proposal overlooks the problem with
> the zero consonant that we
> were pursuing last year.
> 
> More follows,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> t