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This is rather confusing. IIRC both Arial and Times New Roman let you express all 26 alphabets. Now if Naskh has Nastaleeq have differing number of characters,
by eshvk 12y ago
This is rather confusing. IIRC both Arial and Times New Roman let you express all 26 alphabets. Now if Naskh has Nastaleeq have differing number of characters, is this a mere font issue or is there something more fundamental differing between the two?
- restalis 12y agoYou got it wrong. European Latin-based scripts are not identical. They have, besides the basic Latin set of letters, different diacritics. The original Latin alphabet has/had less than 26 letters, and the European languages had to adapt (either by supplement it, or by expressing sounds through combinations of existing letters). Now, a font may or may not have all the European letters, but that makes it merely incomplete from a language's perspective, not that it belongs or not to a given language.
- alieteraz 12y agoThere are two issues. One is that some operating systems (ios) don't offer the full alphabet. As for those that do (Android/Windows), they don't offer the right script. Hope that helps.
- triangleman 12y agorestalis, FYI you have been hellbanned, so no one can read your posts unless they are logged in and have "showdead" turned on.
- restalis 12y agoI think it's because I've touched political matters in a post a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166069