Re: Tanween variants and Unicode

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

So I think what would be the best is that once this proposal goes into public review, everyone who has a different approach should comment and discuss about the matter on the Unicode platform. This includes Meor, Gregg, you and Mohammed Yousif. The public review website is here:

http://www.unicode.org/review/

Regards,
Mete

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From: "Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date:  Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:31:19 -0700

>Hello Nadim,
>
>From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
>>Out of curiosity, who is the "we" in the 'we would discourage' above ?
>
>I meant Tom and me. But I would not like to speak for Tom although I do know his view regarding this tanween issue and he doesn't support proposing six new codepoints for each tanween and rather supports the <tanween+modifier> pattern. This was proposed by himself not by me and I agreed that it is the appropriate way to handle the matter at hand.
>
>>As noted without buy-in from those involved with unicode on this list we
>>have an extremely limited change to get anything through to the committee.
>
>That is why I posted about this on this list in the first place. But it seems like everybody has a different approach to handle the issue and not willing to change their minds except maybe Meor. As far as I understand (referenced individuals, correct me if I'm wrong):
>
>Tom and I support the <tanween+modifier> approach.
>Gregg supports the <vowel+modifier> approach (by vowel, I mean fatha/damma/kasra here).
>Meor is somewhat neutral but he prefers the single codepoint for each tanween variant approach since it is easier to implement.
>You and Mohammed Yousif support the single codepoint for each tanween variant approach.
>
>Kind regards,
>Mete
>
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