Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode


Harlan Messinger wrote:
Andreas Prilop wrote:

Never rely on the Unicode *names* for characters! They are never
changed and may be misleading. The most prominent example is the
"byte order mark" U+FEFF, which will be known forever as "zero-width
no-break space". Therefore, do not infer anything from the *name*
"alef maksura".

What exactly is the purpose of having one series of canonical Arabic
glyphs, and then another series of isolated glyphs that are identical?

I've wondered that too. My guess is that it's to provide a clear
distinction between display and logical characters: the logical
characters should theoretically be able to have any shape you like, as
they are never to be displayed on the screen.

Danny

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