On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Karl Koehler wrote:
> FD82 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH HAH WITH ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM
> FC43 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM
> FC86 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM .
These are not LAM-ALEF ligatures. These are LAM-YEH ligatures.
> I have not seen a fixed-width font without the LAM-ALEF ligature;
> maybe Roozbeh comes up width something decent.
I have not either. It seems that I have forgotten that we were talking
about fixed-width fonts.
> What about the range FD50-FDFB ? Does it make sense to add any of
> these characters at all ? ( They might be nice for a program
> that knows they are there, and they should be considered double-width,
> if anything ).
Surely not in a terminal. I do not recommend any of these for terminals or
fixed-width fonts. Microsoft Courier New has some of them, which has been
problematic for alignment, etc.
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