i thought that it would have worked as
dotlessbeh-ar.init+dotlessbeh-ar.medi+alefMaksura-ar.fina
but that didn’t happen
same problem with noonghunna-ar & dotlessqaf-ar
You can add alefMaksura-ar.init and alefMaksura-ar.medi. Then it will work. Those two glyphs are called ARABIC LETTER UIGHUR KAZAKH KIRGHIZ ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM in Unicode. So I suspect that they are not used in regular Arabic. You can add both glyph and Glyphs will know that it needs to use components of the dotlessbeh.
There noonghunna does not connect and the dotlessqaf-ar is not even include in regular Arabic fonts. So I think the behavior is fine.
Thank you so much on your feedback
about noon ghunnah and dotless qaf i thought the same that this behaviour is normal but i tested other fonts and this is how it shows there
and these fonts are high quality fonts made by professional typedesigners that i would use them as a reference too
what do you think the solution to this could be?
Hello Georg
I know you must be busy but according to the Unicode standard
both dotless qaf, noon ghunna, even heh goal with hamza above should be dual connecting letters
066F; DOTLESS QAF; D; QAF
06BA; DOTLESS NOON; D; NOON
06C2; HEH GOAL WITH HAMZA ABOVE; D; HEH GOAL
I think i just got it figured out,
i simply manually added the glyphs by hand
uni0649.init, uni0649.medi
uni066F.init, uni066F.medi
uni06BA.init, uni06BA.medi
uni06C2.init, uni06C2.medi
and now it works fine, but should it be added by default to the default grids in the components & urdu?
The question is for what languages this glyphs are needed. I didn’t find information about then in the usual places. They all have a unicode but don’t seem to be wildly used.
And you should use their nice names.
[quote=“GeorgSeifert, post:6, topic:3485”]
The question is for what languages this glyphs are needed. I didn’t find information about then in the usual places. They all have a unicode but don’t seem to be wildly used. [/quote]
Thats true, I’m arab and i never saw them being used but Arabic, persian & urdu are so wide to know it all 100% and doing it this way connecting wont be a loss anyway
Yes i did that because without this naming and only using the unicode as the name I guess Glyphs didn’t write it’s feature and it it didn’t work unless i used their “nice names”
Now i have an issue with something related to the topic
The glyph gaf-ar is composed supposed to be composed of keheh+diagonal but glyphs says its composed of keheh-ar _fatha_ar