Arabic-L:LING:shape of miim query

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 16 Oct  2003
From: Haruko SAKAEDANI <harukos at aa.tufs.ac.jp>
Subject:shape of miim query

First, thank you so much & i am sorry for "Where is AATA site?"
which i posted before.  i found it where it was.

By the way, i'd like to know about the font of "miim" this time.
When it is written by hand its head is like a circle.
But the miim fonts of computers have black heads like a tadpole
or imcomplete heads (the left part is lost), don't they?

That is a big problem for the beginners!
When they see a miim font with an imcomplete head  they mistake it for
Haa!

Why doesn't the miim font have a circular head?
Are there any technical problems to make a font of "miim" with a
circular head?
Or is there a font-set including a proper-shaped "miim"?

Thanks in advance,
Haruko Sakaedani
Part-time lecturer
Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies

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