- From: asmusf via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 07:50:03 +0000
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On 2/11/2016 11:22 PM, Martin Dürst wrote: > > This is what I originally posted (in e-mail): > > I fully agree with John. I don't have any experience > of being beaten > up by experts on that point, but then only because I > never even got > the idea to make such a point. > > I'm sorry for the delay in coming back to this issue, but I somehow > misread John Klensin's comment, and got everything mixed up. As a > result, I have to disagree with John, and agree with Asmus and Addison > Phillips. The initial/medial/final/isolate distinction in Arabic is of > quite a different nature than the casing distinctions in > Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/... In addition to what has already been said, > I'd like to mention that the Arabic calligraphy experts that I have > been in interaction with, in particular Tom Milo, always insisted that > the four-way distinction was a hopelessly crude approximation to what > good typography and calligraphy for Arabic warranted. > I remember the same lecture from Tom. A./ > > — > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/67#issuecomment-183212461>. > -- GitHub Notification of comment by asmusf Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/67#issuecomment-183219742 using your GitHub account
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