<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">While the problem is with fonts, I think it is really caused by language differences. In Urdu, the convention for the tashdid-kasra combination is to put tashdid above and kasra below the letter. This convention applies even to Arabic texts (e.g., the Qurans) published in countries </font><font size="2">like Pakistan and India </font><font size="2">with large numbers of Urdu speakers. The Qurans published in Arab countries place kasra below the tashdid symbol, of course. Incidentally, there are several other orthographic differences in the Qurans published in Pakistan and India and those published in Arab countries.<br>
<br>This variation is unfortunate because it limits the use of many fonts across different languages.<br><br>Below is the image of a Mac TextEdit window with the tashdid-kasra combination in three different Urdu fonts.<br>
<br>Kamal Abdali<br><br><img title="tashdid-kasra-urdu.jpg" alt="tashdid-kasra-urdu.jpg" src="cid:ii_129b4b3f7dc9141b"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 15:02, Andy Lin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kiryen@gmail.com">kiryen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">> The best thing is to try a font which does not have this kind of issue.<br>
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I've attached a pdf file of various Arabic fonts (most of them are<br>
included with newer versions of Windows). The string is input with<br>
tashdid before kasra. The first column has the script set to Arabic,<br>
the second column has the language set to Urdu (the SIL fonts behave<br>
differently here!), and the third has the language set to Farsi.<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
<font color="#888888">Andy<br>
</font><br><br>
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