On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Arno Schmitt wrote: > Since U+0649 is called alif maqsura it should be used for alif maqsura.
But that argument, you must use U+0027 for an apostrophe instead of U+2019. The Unicode names for characters are often hictorical and you should not infer anything from such names. > Please not that in the Qur'an it occurs not only at the end of words. If you argue with archaic spelling, then ð and þ are English letters. > Or do you use small l for capital I when using Helvetica? They don't even have the same stroke width.