The traditional Arabic typecase extended to the Unicode set of glyphs
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Unicode, and other “universal” encodings have shown the need for adapting resources until now available only for major scripts, to the “ethnic” extensions of these scripts. In this paper we describe such an example: the adaptation of the traditional Arabic typecase to the needs of other languages using the Arabic script. We present an implementation of this extension : Al-Amal, based on TEX,METAFONT, and Flex/Bison filters.
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