On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote: > David Starner: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Andreas Prilop >>> [U+0649] is no Arabic letter, but an Uighur letter. >> >> That's wrong, though. […] U+0649 must be an Arabic character; > > Andreas probably meant that U+0649 is not part of the Arabic writing system, > i.e. the Arabic script as used in writing the Arabic language (with some > recognised orthography). > > You probably mean that U+0649 is part of the Arabic script, which it > certainly is.
No, what I mean was that MacArabic, Windows-1256 and ISO-8859-6 are designed to write the Arabic language. If U+0649 is in these character sets, to say that it's really a Uighur character is like saying that U+0041 is really a Greek character; it spits in the face of how the character has been used and how fonts have been designed for the character. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
