Lateef Sagar Shaikh wrote:
>
I am making a font for Kurdish in Arabic script, and
> don't
know how to handle some Kurdish characters. I am
> sending an image for detail.
Based on the glyphs you
show, your mappings seem correct to me.
The vowels that you did not specify look like
normal letters alif, ha', ya', and waw, so why shouldn't they be encoded
with the normal code points?
The initial form of vowels seems like the
same letters preceded by a hamza on a ya' carrier, which is probably the Kurdish
way of spelling the glottal stop.
So I would propose these
encodings:
| Latin | Arabic | Arabic Initial |
| a | ا (U+0627) | ئا (U+0626 U+0627) |
| e | ه (U+0647) | ئه (U+0626 U+0647) |
| ê | ێ (U+06CE) | ئێ (U+0626 U+06CE) |
| î | ی (U+06CC) | ئی (U+0626 U+06CC) |
| o | ۆ (U+06C6) | ئۆ (U+0626 U+06C6) |
| u | و (U+0648) | ئو (U+0626 U+0648) |
| û | وو (U+0648 U+0648) | ئوو (U+0626 U+0648 U+0648) |
| ç | چ (U+0686) | |
| g | گ (U+06AF) | |
| j | ژ (U+0698) | |
| ll | ڵ (U+06B5) | |
| p | پ (U+067E) | |
| rr | ڕ (U+0695) | |
| y | ی (U+06CC) | |
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Marco
Lateef Sagar Shaikh wrote: > I am making a font for Kurdish in Arabic script, and > don't know how to handle some Kurdish characters. I am > sending an image for detail. Based on the glyphs you show, your mappings seem correct to me. The vowels that you did not specify look like normal letters alif, ha', ya', and waw, so why shouldn't they be encoded with the normal code points? The initial form of vowels seems like the same letters preceded by a hamza on a ya' carrier, which is probably the Kurdish way of spelling the glottal stop. So I would propose these encodings: Latin Arabic Arabic Initial a ا (U+0627) ئا (U+0626 U+0627) e ه (U+0647) ئه (U+0626 U+0647) ê ێ (U+06CE) ئێ (U+0626 U+06CE) î ی (U+06CC) ئی (U+0626 U+06CC) o ۆ (U+06C6) ئۆ (U+0626 U+06C6) u و (U+0648) ئو (U+0626 U+0648) û وو (U+0648 U+0648) ئوو (U+0626 U+0648 U+0648) ç چ (U+0686) g گ (U+06AF) j ژ (U+0698) ll ڵ (U+06B5) p پ (U+067E) rr ڕ (U+0695) y ی (U+06CC) I hope everybody can read HTML e-mails. Just in case, I attach a text version. _ Marco
