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Re: Proposal for the Basis of a Codepoint Extension toUnicodeforthe Encoding of the Quranic Manuscripts
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Proposal for the Basis of a Codepoint Extension toUnicodeforthe Encoding of the Quranic Manuscripts
- From: Abdulhaq Lynch <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:26:05 +0100
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On Wednesday 22 June 2005 09:08, Thomas Milo wrote:
> What's the objection? It would be just as transparent as you solution.
> Anyway, I like your approach. If it is to find any acceptance, there needs
> to be canonical equivalence with legacy encoding accoding to this formula:
>
> TANWEEN = <vowel><small noon>
> = conventional tanween
> TAMWEEM = <vowel><small meem>
> IDGHAM = <vowel><idgham code>
>
> Note that this is different - and better - than Meor's and my earlier
> suggestion to retain full tanween followed by a modulation mark.
>
I like this idea however I don't like (as you've probably guessed by now)
mixing up what is pure text, in the sense that it changes the meaning of the
words, and what indicates pronounciation. Therefore I would modify this such
that IDGHAAM, IKHFAA AND IQLAAB (TAMWEEN) are indicated by subsequent
codepoints:
TAMWEEM/IQLAAB = <vowel><small nuun><iqlaab> (was using small meem)
IDGHAAM = <vowel><small nuun><idghaam> (was using shadda on subsequent letter)
IKHFAA = <vowel><small nuun><ikhfaa> (was sequential blahblah)
and arguably, because it is redundant, I would add
IDHHAAR = <vowel><small nuun><idhhaar>
Likewise I would change the nuun with iqlaab, ikhfaa etc from
NUUN + IQLAAB was = <nuun><small meem>
to
NUUN + IQLAAB = <nuun><sukuun><iqlaab>
etc.
This has great benefits in terms of searching in that the tajweed codes can be
treated as whitespace and all vowels and sukuuns are easily identified.
I would also change the name from <small nuun> to <tanween> so as to move away
from glyph based naming conventions. Adopting good labels does help clearer
thinking.
wassalaam
abdulahq