At 04:03 5/13/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>On the basis of this precedent, and on the basis of the fact that sample
>glyphs on old copies Unicode book's will have a strong influence on font
>designers for years, it may be wise in this case to leave the old
>U+0643-like character alone and add a
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Amir Herman wrote:
> As conclusion, I would say that we can still preserve the existing U+6AC
> because it is not wrong, only the glyph is not standard and limited in
> its use. Later on I might send some images to clarify my argument. The
> task now is to add another glyph
John Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Amir, you are misunderstanding the nature of Unicode. Unicode is a
> *character* encoding standard, and the glyphs in the charts
> are intended only as a visual guide suggesting normative shapes
> for those characters.
On the other hand, we know that thi
At 10:14 +0800 2002-05-13, Amir Herman wrote:
>Dear Roozbeh,
>
>I would strongly suggest that instead of correcting the U+6AC, we
>add another glyph of 'GA' of letter 'KEHEH' (U+6A9) with dot above.
>It is not 100% wrong of saying
>that existing U+6AC represent 'GA' for old malay. Only that the
At 22:57 5/12/2002, Amir Herman wrote:
>If this is the case, why in Unicode it have Arabic Presentation A & C to
>present the final, medial, and initial form of Arabic characters?
Ah, this is an historical oddity. Character inclusion in Unicode is
governed by a number of principles, which are n
Quoting John Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Amir, you are misunderstanding the nature of Unicode. Unicode is a
> *character* encoding standard, and the glyphs in the charts are intended
> only as a visual guide suggesting normative shapes for those characters. In
> the case of Arabic, a single c
At 19:14 5/12/2002, Amir Herman wrote:
>I would strongly suggest that instead of correcting the U+6AC, we add
>another glyph of 'GA' of letter 'KEHEH' (U+6A9) with dot above. It is not
>100% wrong of saying
>that existing U+6AC represent 'GA' for old malay. Only that the glyph is
>in 'rare' sh
Quoting Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> > However, I also think it is quite clear that U+06AC ARABIC LETTER KAF
> > WITH DOT ABOVE is the one that was intentionally encoded for the Jawi
> > ga character. This has been marked as an "old Mal
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> However, I also think it is quite clear that U+06AC ARABIC LETTER KAF
> WITH DOT ABOVE is the one that was intentionally encoded for the Jawi
> ga character. This has been marked as an "old Malay" letter ever since
> Unicode 1.0.
>
> The error would
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