Arabic diacritics

عبد الرحمان أيمن abdo.alrhman.aiman at gmail.com
Mon May 18 06:49:27 CDT 2015


many thanks, this exactly the needed information :)

respectfully

2015-05-15 19:09 GMT+03:00 Denis Jacquerye <moyogo at gmail.com>:

> 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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