Characters that are not used for Arabic/Persian

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Characters that are not used for Arabic/Persian #277

Open xfq opened 1 month ago

xfq commented 1 month ago

https://www.w3.org/TR/alreq/#h_character_tables_punctuation_and_symbols

There are some characters that are not used for Arabic (like U+0020 SPACE and U+002A ASTERISK), and some characters that are not used for Persian (like U+0022 QUOTATION MARK). I wonder what the criteria are for selecting these characters?

shervinafshar commented 1 month ago

For Persian, there is a standard—ISIRI-9147, pp. 17-19 of PDF—available. For Arabic, we couldn't surface such document and if I recall it correctly, we relied on CLDR data and the case of U+0020 for Arabic seems to be an error. We probably need to revisit this section for Arabic.

Also, if you were unaware, we provisionally recorded our non-normative references in a spreadsheet here with the objective of migration the content eventually to the document. I added #278.