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Re: Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic
How are these sequences encoded? I presume it is desirable to have a consistent encoding, since putting the tanwin on different letters depending on how you want it to display means different spellin…1 -
Re: Units per em
Not just legacy systems. The optimisations in the rasterisers are current for DirectWrite as well as the older GDI environments. Basically, Microsoft's view is that since the optimisations impro…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
It's notable that not all implementations of the Arabic script are abjads: some are alphabets (e.g. the Kurdish writing system). I suspect that the efficiency of abjads is related to the particu…1 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Somewhat as an aside: There have been a lot of assertions in this thread about how we — collectively or as individuals — read. I think it is important to restate what should be obvious, given that co…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Khaled, I'd not seen that paper before. It seems mostly to deal with perception of vowels in vocalised text. In the conclusion there is a reference to an earlier study, which I think is the one …2
