I have been searching online for unicode/rendering solutions for displaying fully vowelized Arabic text.
So for example, I'm trying to find a solution to display "dagger alif" after a character if it already has a fatha. And also a way to write inline hamza correctly. Example:
I have found a few fonts that handle the dagger alif correctly (Calibri Arabic, Arabic Typesetting, Amiri, KFGQPC Hafs but not KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh) by just using u+0670 Arabic superscript alef directly after a fatha. For the inline hamza, it seems all fonts require a tatweel u+0640 and then a Arabic hamza above u+0654. A tatweel also solves the dagger alif issue in words like هَـٰذَا but not if the character does not join as in ذَٰلِكَ. I am sometimes able to get around it by combining the dagger alif with a no-break space (NBSP, NNBSP, ZWNBSP, word joiner u+2060) but this is quite flaky and does not always render correctly.
I am looking for a simplified Arabic font similar to Calibri Arabic that I can use inline with English text without increasing line spacing a whole lot. Unfortunately Calibri Arabic is only easily accessible to Windows users. I was wondering if there is a good solution for the problem so that I can use with more easily available simplified Arabic web fonts.
By the way there is some existing discussion regarding these issues but I’m not sure if there is any resolution:
I have been searching online for unicode/rendering solutions for displaying fully vowelized Arabic text.
So for example, I'm trying to find a solution to display "dagger alif" after a character if it already has a fatha. And also a way to write inline hamza correctly. Example:
I have found a few fonts that handle the dagger alif correctly (Calibri Arabic, Arabic Typesetting, Amiri, KFGQPC Hafs but not KFGQPC Uthman Taha Naskh) by just using u+0670 Arabic superscript alef directly after a fatha. For the inline hamza, it seems all fonts require a tatweel u+0640 and then a Arabic hamza above u+0654. A tatweel also solves the dagger alif issue in words like هَـٰذَا but not if the character does not join as in ذَٰلِكَ. I am sometimes able to get around it by combining the dagger alif with a no-break space (NBSP, NNBSP, ZWNBSP, word joiner u+2060) but this is quite flaky and does not always render correctly.
I am looking for a simplified Arabic font similar to Calibri Arabic that I can use inline with English text without increasing line spacing a whole lot. Unfortunately Calibri Arabic is only easily accessible to Windows users. I was wondering if there is a good solution for the problem so that I can use with more easily available simplified Arabic web fonts.
By the way there is some existing discussion regarding these issues but I’m not sure if there is any resolution:
https://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/June/msg00309.html
https://unicode.org/L2/L2013/13226-koran-ortho.pdf