Re: XTerm Arabic Patch

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Robert Brady wrote:

> Do ZWJ/ZWNJ interactions matters : i.e.
> 
>         FOO  ZWJ  ZWNJ  BAR
> 
> could be rendered as
> 
>        <foo-init> <bar-isol>
> 
> Is this important to implement?

Unfortunately, Unicode Technical Committee has agreed to the usage of ZWNJ
also as a non-ligator recently, and recommends using the sequence
ZWJ ZWNJ ZWJ if anyone wants to turn off ligaturing between two Arabic
letters. Fortunately, I do not know of anyone who's using that.

--roozbeh


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