Re: [alreq] U+FDF2 'ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM' not always rendered correctly

The production process changed between Unicode 2.x and 3.0. From that point on, different custom software was used with an entirely new collection of TrueType fonts. With many upgrades, both to the software and the font collection, that process is still very much in place today.

Every update of the font collection bears the risk of unintentional changes, and not all of them are caught be reviewers. Therefore, it would take some digging to find out whether the change from a glyph matching the decomposition to a glyph adding shadda and alif was indeed intentional at the time.

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