Re: [idn] Arabic hyphen-like glyph

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Soobok Lee wrote:

> Arabic glyph U+0640 (Arabic TATWEEL) looks like Latin hyphen(-).

But this is a joining character (something like a letter). We need
something non-joining.

> Arabic FULLSTOP U+06D4  looks like Latin 'underline' (or 'hyphen' ).

This is a very rare character, only used in Urdu.

> Using hyphen instead of punctuation char NWNJ(U+200C,No-width No joiner)
>  may not help but cause confusion to native-Arabic people.

I can't get what you really mean. Using hyphen will not cause confusion of
Arabic users, be sure about it. Hyphen is used in many languages that use
the Arabic script.

roozbeh