r12a
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3 months ago @saadatm thank you for these comments. It may take a while to address them all, but they are on my to-do list.
Open saadatm opened 3 months ago
r12a
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3 months ago @saadatm thank you for these comments. It may take a while to address them all, but they are on my to-do list.
I would like to discuss a few points about Urdu counter styles.
In Urdu lists, counters are usually followed by U+06D4 ARABIC FULL STOP. Some examples are below:
The document currently mentions in a note that
urduis identical topersian. It would be helpful to mention the 06D4 suffix in that note, too.Even better: We can include the full counter style definition for Urdu. Now that this document is mentioned in the spec (and web browsers are soon expected to include these counter styles by default), an
urducounter style with the common appropriate suffix that CSS authors can easily use would be nice.I noticed in a recent commit that initial definitions for two Urdu styles,
urdu-alphabeticandurdu-abjad, were added.CDAC's description of
urdu-alphabeticbeing an unlimited style with characters getting doubled after exhaustion is interesting. I asked on an Urdu forum if anybody has seen its examples, but we haven't been able to find any yet (I would love to see one!)A counter style for
urdu-abjadwill be beneficial: We needed it for the content of Imla Nama, and at that time we rolled our own definition (which is identical to what is added in that commit). However, in the aforementioned thread on the Urdu forum, a friend shared a book (about Punjabi poetry, but with extensive commentary and footnotes in Urdu), which uses two different Abjad orderings:I have no idea why two different orderings were used, but I thought that it would be an interesting example to share. (In contrast, another Urdu poetry book also uses Abjad numerals for its front matter pages, but employs ک and ل and م for 11, 12, 13.)