Christian Palestinian Aramaic

2014-10-09 Thread P.D. Myers
Hello all, The Unicode manual, p. 384 (http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ch09.pdf) states: Christian Palestinian Aramaic. Manuscripts of this dialect employ a script that is akin to Estrangela. It can be considered a subcategory of Estrangela. However, I am working on a CPA

Proposals for Arabic honorifics

2014-10-09 Thread Naz Gassiep
Hi there, I was wondering how I can help on a particular issue. Currently, the Unicode spec has two Arabic honorifics, being U+FDFA and U+FDFB. There are also miscellaneous other phrases and formal marks. When authoring documents, I use the two (U+FDFA and U+FDFB) and then write out the

Re: Proposals for Arabic honorifics

2014-10-09 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Hi, I'm the author of L2/14-147. Nice to see you interested in the topic. It would be great to have more samples of the usage of these characters. Feel free to send the samples you can find to me or as a separate proposal document for the UTC, whichever way you prefer. On Oct 9, 2014 7:32 AM,

Re: Christian Palestinian Aramaic

2014-10-09 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Two things: 1. You should be able to get the behavior you want through 'calt' or 'dlig' OpenType features. You'd need to add more lookups to your font than a typical Syriac font, but that's to be expected, considering that you are working with slightly atypical material. 2. Based on the exact