Arabic diacritics

Denis Jacquerye moyogo at gmail.com
Fri May 15 11:09:29 CDT 2015


You should use ARABIC SHADDA U+0651 in all positions. The presentation
forms (isolated, medial, final forms) are for compatibility with legacy
systems.
See what is said in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ch09.pdf
about the Arabic Presentation Forms-B.

Cheers,


On Fri, 15 May 2015 at 15:53 عبد الرحمان أيمن <abdo.alrhman.aiman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> regarding the Arabic diacritics. e.g. for the Shadda, we
> have:
>
> 1. The form that people type:
> http://unicode-table.com/en/0651/
>
> 2. An Isolated form. It should be the same, but looks different in the
> Unicode table, which is confusing me now.
> http://unicode-table.com/en/FE7C/
>
> 3. A medial form:
> http://unicode-table.com/en/FE7D/
>
> When do I use 1/2, and when do I use 3?
>
> some diacritics has e.g. isolated and medial forms. Some have
> only one of these forms, some have both. So, where does each of them go?
>
> respectfully
>
>
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