From: John Cowan (email@example.com)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 08:44:25 EST
Ernst Tremel scripsit:
> I would like to suggest to add some - until now still - missing characters for Arabic Kurdish:
The explicitly isolated, initial, medial, and final forms of Arabic-script
letters are purely for backward compatibility, and should not be used
outside that scope. Instead, the mutable letters in the U+0600 range
should be used instead.
> These characters are necessary to write Kurdish in Arabic script. And if
> these characters would be added to Unicode programming would be easier.
There is no getting away from implementing character shaping in display
routines, but most modern operating systems already do so. Using a
single representation for each Arabic-script letter is much better for
all non-display purposes (searching, sorting, speech rendering, etc. etc.)
-- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan firstname.lastname@example.org www.reutershealth.com [P]olice in many lands are now complaining that local arrestees are insisting on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV cop shows. When it's explained to them that they are in a different country, where those rights do not exist, they become outraged. --Neal Stephenson
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