{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/22","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/22/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/22/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/22/events","html_url":"https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/22","id":121342808,"number":22,"title":"Variant letter shapes","user":{"login":"r12a","id":4839211,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4839211?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a","html_url":"https://github.com/r12a","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/r12a/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-12-09T21:30:13Z","updated_at":"2015-12-11T11:52:43Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I believe our character list contains all of the characters ق and ڧ, and the characters ف and ڢ?  Given that each pair represents two visual variants of the same letter, if someone in North Africa wants to use a shape relevant to their region, such as ڢ, is it appropriate to use a separate character, or should one expect the difference to be produced by using a different font?  Same question for the qaf.\r\n\r\nOf course, the reason i ask is that spelling the same word in two different ways is not ideal for searching, security (eg. IDNs), etc."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/comments/163920565","html_url":"https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/22#issuecomment-163920565","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/alreq/issues/22","id":163920565,"user":{"login":"shervinafshar","id":875962,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/875962?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar","html_url":"https://github.com/shervinafshar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shervinafshar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-11T11:52:43Z","updated_at":"2015-12-11T11:52:43Z","body":"These characters' appearances in our list is because they are considered\nauxiliary for Arabic in CLDR data. I will make sure to mark that in the\ncharts to avoid confusion. Obviously, there are many other Feh-based\ncharacters we are not listing here.\n\nBoth of these characters are legacy dating back to Unicode 1.1. So the\nrationales used today for encoding might not apply to them.\n\nThe same goes for \"Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh\".\n\nIs there a keyboard layout issued by a standard national body in Egypt\nwhich includes U+06CC? Has there been any efforts to rectify the characters\nmissing from the layouts?\n"}}