Re: [idn] Arabic hyphen-like glyph

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>;
<idn-nameprep@viagenie.qc.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Arabic hyphen-like glyph


> At 12:16 01/07/26 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> >Arabic glyph U+0640 (Arabic TATWEEL) looks like Latin hyphen(-).
> >
> >Arabic FULLSTOP U+06D4  looks like Latin 'underline' (or 'hyphen' ).
> >
> >Using hyphen instead of punctuation char NWNJ(U+200C,No-width No joiner)
> >  may not help but cause confusion to native-Arabic people.
>
> Hello Soobok,
>
> Glyphs in Arabic are not isolated. The hyphen would be isolated,
> but tatweel/kashida is always connected. The hyphen would be higher
> than both tatweel and Arabic full stop (used in Urdu).
>

Your are correct. the hyphen is slightly higher than the arabic
script baseline.
BTW, when a hyphen is put between two arabic words,
the hyphen look disconnected from the right word, but looks
connected to the left word in cases with some arabic leading consonants.
I am not sure that problem come from the used arabic font.

> So rather than just looking at the glyph charts, please get an
> understanding of how Arabic formatting works before trying to
> comment on it.

Anyway, thanks for your corrections.

Regards, Soobok

>
> Regards,   Martin.
>