> It's curious that the Arabic Presentation Forms got > into Unicode at all, and a number of people still think > it was a mistake, a sell-out. One of the Fathers of Unicode > told me they were deprecated. Even the Unicode specification > explains their presence rather apologetically.
Well, one reason that often comes up with Unicode is that they want to have a 1:1 round-tripping from any legacy encoding to Unicode and back. So if some existing old encoding had the Arabic presentation forms, Unicode had to have them. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
