The "Maghrebian Abjad" sequence

[ntounsi]

In addition to the two lists of Arabic letters in CSS counter styles, "persian-alphabetic" (aka Hijā’ī) and "persian-abjad" (aka Abjadī), I think there is another list (or version) of Arabic Abjadī. The "Maghrebian Abjad" sequence. It is a little bit different from the well known one, the "Persian Abjad" (or "Arabic Abjad")

Persian-abjad : أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ
Magrebian-abjad : أبجد هوز حطي كلمن صعفض قرست ثخذ ظغش

(See also picture attached)

The Magrebian-abjad is what I learned at school as a second sequence beside the more scholar sequence which is called alphabetic (and is also the Unicode sequence). I think the Magrebian-abjad is easier to pronounce, especially at the end. " ... thakhudh ẓughshin " vs " ... thakhudh ḍuẓghin "

So here is my suggestion:

@counter-style maghrebian-abjad { system: fixed; suffix: ') '; symbols: '\627' '\628' '\62C' '\62F' '\647\200D' '\648' '\632' '\62D' '\637' '\64A' '\6A9' '\644' '\645' '\646' '\635' '\639' '\641' '\636' '\642' '\631' '\633' '\62A' '\62B' '\62E' '\630' '\638' '\63A' '\634'; / symbols: 'ا' 'ب' 'ج' 'د' 'ه‍' 'و' 'ز' 'ح' 'ط' 'ي' 'ک' 'ل' 'م' 'ن' 'ص' 'ع' 'ف' 'ض' 'ق' 'ر' 'س' 'ت' 'ث' 'خ' 'ذ' 'ظ' 'غ' 'ش' /; }

Note that I put ARABIC LETTER YEH (U+064A) instead of ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH (U+06CC)

Best regards,

Najib

[ntounsi]

About implementation, only Mozilla based UAs are OK. Here is an example. http://196.200.140.8/Tests/maghrebianAbjadCounterStyle.html

• The fifth item in the list, letter Heh ('\647\200D'), should have initial form because of the ZWJ :-(
• The suffix I chose is ). It is mirrored in rtl context

[r12a]

@ntounsi I added this in https://github.com/w3c/predefined-counter-styles/commit/5fa09901f2e9c561bf03a11a24d45299d895f606

See https://w3c.github.io/predefined-counter-styles/#arabic-styles

Najib, i think there is one small error in your code above. You use keheh ک instead of kaf ك. Since i'm pretty sure that's an error, and since it is the only difference from the maghrebi sequence described in Wikipedia, i used kaf.

Please reopen this issue if you want to come back on that.

[ntounsi]

You're right. My error. It's Kaf '\643' instead of Keheh '\6A9' .  

@counter-style maghrebian-abjad {
system: fixed;
suffix: ') '; 
symbols: 
  '\627' '\628' '\62C' '\62F' '\647\200D' '\648' '\632' '\62D' '\637' '\6CC' '\643' '\644' '\645' '\646' '\635' '\639' '\641' '\636'
  '\642' '\631' '\633' '\62A' '\62B' '\62E' '\630' '\638' '\63A' '\634';
/* symbols: 
'ا' 'ب' 'ج' 'د' 'ه‍' 'و' 'ز' 'ح' 'ط' 'ی' 'ك' 'ل' 'م' 'ن'  'ص'  'ع' 'ف' 'ض'
'ق' 'ر'  'س'  'ت'  'ث' 'خ' 'ذ' 'ظ' 'غ' 'ش'
  */;
}