Re: Characters LAM and ALIF together (ligature) in Arabic

2012-03-26 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Escape Landsome wrote: > In Arabic, when writing a LAM followed by an ALIF, you have a special > ligature of the two letters Some (broken) fonts do not form the lam-alif ligature when you insert some non-spacing mark between lam and alif: http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-

Re: Characters LAM and ALIF together (ligature) in Arabic

2012-03-26 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
2012/3/26 Escape Landsome : > Hello > > I'm not quite sure this has something to do with Unicode (rather than > HTML, for instance), but I keep asking the question : > > In Arabic, when writing a LAM followed by an ALIF, you have a special > ligature of the two letters > > On the arab sites I consu

Characters LAM and ALIF together (ligature) in Arabic

2012-03-26 Thread Escape Landsome
Hello I'm not quite sure this has something to do with Unicode (rather than HTML, for instance), but I keep asking the question : In Arabic, when writing a LAM followed by an ALIF, you have a special ligature of the two letters On the arab sites I consult, I see that : لَا The problem is by n

Re: Combining latin small letters with diacritics

2012-03-26 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Steven Atreju wrote: > Denis Jacquerye wrote [2012-03-26 13:35+0200]: >> The fact [.] doesn't make it any saner. >> >> The same could be said [.] >> >> Denis Moyogo Jacquerye > > Are you trying to say that extra tables and exact additional > knowledge besides Unico

Re: Combining latin small letters with diacritics

2012-03-26 Thread Steven Atreju
Denis Jacquerye wrote [2012-03-26 13:35+0200]: > The fact [.] doesn't make it any saner. > > The same could be said [.] > > Denis Moyogo Jacquerye Are you trying to say that extra tables and exact additional knowledge besides UnicodeData.txt should not be necessary? In the end you wanna make it a

Re: Combining latin small letters with diacritics

2012-03-26 Thread Denis Jacquerye
So far the linguistic atlases I have seen extensively use this combining letter mechanism, with diacritics changing the meaning of the combining letter or of the base letter. There are a whole lot of notations that could simply be base combining letter + combining diacritics, but if you consider t