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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On 05/02/2011 8:09 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:54:06 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> And Arabic script was adopted by a whole lot of different languages
>> which had sounds that Arabic did not. So they had to make up their own
>> letters, most commonly by adding different numbers of dots to the
>> existing shapes.
>>
> Arabic Letters also have different glyphs depending on whether they are
> at the start, middle or end of a word or an isolated letter, though six
> letters only have isolated and end-of-word representations. Unicode
> supports this with a code point for each representation of each letter.

The Arabic I've seen has always looked like it's in something of a 
cursive style, so this may be because each letter may have a connection 
to the previous, the next, both, or neither. The four variants probably 
look similar to one another except for these connections, then.

The six letters with only two representations are interesting in that 
light. Are they not valid letters in any other position in a word than 
as last character then? Are they tags that modify a word, say, to give 
it a gender or make it plural? Or something else?

-- 
In <iijn58$ccs$1@news.albasani.net>, Lew admitted:
 > The JLS is obfuscatory in parts

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  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 15:42 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 18:34 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 11:02 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:17 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-09 20:12 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-10 14:00 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 12:54 +1300
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-02-05 13:09 +0000
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:29 -0800

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