Behnam Esfahbod

@asmusf, do you know which method your colleague is talking about? Method 1?

@mostafah found http://maryamsoft.com/QuranPrinting/ , which demonstrates interesting features, (non-Quran-specific ones), including: 1. word spacing and justification; 2. characters with different color in one joining run; 3. diacritics in different color;...

See Also: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/arabic/block#char0671 @ntounsi, @khaledhosny, can you provide more details about the use of U+0670 and U+0671 in Arabic language, hopefully standard and local variants?

Re U+0671: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_alif SUPERSCRIPT ALEF is one of the characters in "الله‎" ligature, making it a common one on modern usage.

Since gbook links are not always reliable, here's a snapshot from the second link (I couldn't see the first one): https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=WpByAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA162&dq=%D9%B1&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPkauQ85zTAhVEPhQKHf6iBHEQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=%D9%B1&f=false

> The resulting word is "Sah", meaning "Shut up!", used to demand silence : «don't pronounce this Alef». Interesting! Btw, let's keep the issue open until we file CLDR tickets...

Comments from conf-call: * Arabic Question Mark is not present in any of the tables. * ASCII Question Mark should NOT be marked as "used" for either languages. * Whether...

@ntounsi, @khaledhosny, would you use any of these two chars in Modern Arabic, besides their Composed form with ALEF? * U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE * U+0655 ARABIC HAMZA BELOW

CLDR ticket filed: http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/10221

@mostafah, assigning this to you to work on the script. Also, would you please take a look why these two get marked as main/used in Persian, which I believe shouldn't...