Last modified: 2010-07-22 12:01:25 UTC
The set of characters provided under the special characters toolbar for "Arabic" are not correct: 1) They include پ and چ and ژ and گ which are not Arabic; they are used in Persian language only. 2) If it was intended to merge Arabic and Persian special chars into one category, then they don't included other characters required in Persian language, including the correct Persian Yeh (ی) and Zero-Width-Non-Joiner. Given that the order of letters is different in Arabic and Persian, and with the aforementioned reasons, I suggest Arabic and Persian are served as two separate sections.
Could you tell us which characters (and in which order) should appear in the Arabic and Persian sections?
Sorry I didn't reply sooner (for some reason, my email subscription has ended up in spam folder!) The correct set of Arabic characters (letters) is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Arabic_alphabet The correct set of Persian characters (letters) is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Persian_alphabet Other than these, Persian writers require to use Zero-Width-Non-Joiner. Both Arabic and Persian writers require the appropriate comma, semicolon, question mark, and a set of Hamza's (in the current set of Special characters, under the Arabic section, the 3rd to 8th items are required in Arabic, and 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th characters are required for Persian). Also, Tanwins are required for Arabic (they are missing now) and one of the Tanwins is also used in Persian. Finally, Arabic and Persian use different K's so we need to take care of that too. Briefly, if you could direct me to where the current character set is stored, I could come up with a patch right away!
Actually, I found it so I'm going to patch this.
Fixed with r68880.
