No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the same
(even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you search
RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file (copy and
paste), you get no results. If you use an apostrophe instead, you get all of
the places in RDA where the word occurs.
Adam
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Gene Fieg wrote:
Does it display the same? And are the unicodes the same?
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Adam L. Schiff
<asch...@u.washington.edu>wrote:
I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed to
the form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic transliteration
of the word, but when we were doing the examples for RDA we were told by
the JSC to use an apostrophe rather than an alif for all of our examples.
We were instructed to use an apostrophe presumably because the apostrophe
is commonly used in English language resources. So I'm not sure if the
change to an alif was an intentional change or not. If the alif is
intentional, then the RDA examples need to be changed too.
Adam Schiff
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asch...@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff
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