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Thomas Milo and Unicode
Thomas Milo of Decotype presented this paper on Unicode in Arabic at the 20th International Unicode Conference Washington (2002). He sstates: "In terms of encoding, Arabic is no different from any other alphabetic script, but care has to be taken to leave its graphical structure intact. The Unicode stndard is conceived for encoding raw text, not as a glyph list. Particularly attempts to fix the repertoire of Arabic letter alternations is a gross simplification and poses a long term threat to authentic reproduction of Arabic in the IT industry. Graphic representation of text remains outside the competence of Unicode proper. The purpose of Unicode is to enable cultural diversity without imposing irrelevant constraints." |
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