[HarfBuzz] The canonical ordering of hamza marks

[Roozbeh Pournader]

Khaled, you are referring to a specific style of writing the Koran. There
are several others, which Unicode should be able to represent.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:26:15PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Furthermore, <alef,quranic madda> ≠ <alef with madda above>
> > >
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because every Mushaf printed in Egypt (and most of the Arabic world)
> since 1919[1] has a note at the end of Madda description stating that “…
> and this mark should not be used to indicate an omitted Alef after[sic]
> a written Alef, as in آمنوا, that were mistakingly put in many
> Mushafs …”, which to me is a very frank indication that the two marks
> are not the same thing.
>
> Also a vowel mark (which the Quranic Madda is) should not “blend” with
> its base letter, the same way that U+06C7 is not canonically equivalent
> to <U+0648,U+064F> etc.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> 1. The date of first Mushaf printed by Al-Azhar where most of the
> Quranic annotation marks were formalized and standardized.
>
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