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Hi,
Don't you have the same problem with Hebrew? Several letters change form
when they occur at the end of the word.
Steve
ps there is a wonderful book on the Arabic Alphabet for English speakers,
but I'm sorry, I can't remember its name. A search on one of the book
selling sites should find it.
Leonard Rosenthol
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At 04:16 PM 6/26/2003 -0400, Peter Persits wrote:
>A PDF-generating product I am working on provides Unicode support and
>displays Russian, Hebrew and even Chinese characters just fine.
Excellent!!
>Apparently in Arabic, a character's glyphs vary according to its relative
>position to other characters, to provide a nice "bridge" between letters.
Correct. Many of the languages of that family (Persian, Farsi,
etc.) all have contextual glyph shaping...
>I was wondering if someone (Arabic-speaking, perhaps) could point me in a
>direction where I can find some information on this matter.
Google for it!
There are standard tables you can use to determine the shaping...
Leonard
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