I am not sure if the following message sent by Andrew got the traction it needed. I would request the members of the Arabic script team to look at the document urgently, especially Section 7 (and the definition of variants in Section 7.2) and comment, as the document is in the last call. There are a few categories of variants in Arabic script which are missing from the suggested list in Section 7.2 (ref. my earlier mail on variants in Arabic). regards, Sarmad Thanks for this. Something that is quite important to pay attention
to is the special meaning of "variants" we have here. In particular, it is related to but quite different from the meaning of "variant" in Unicode. It's unfortunate that the term got overloaded historically. For some more detail, see http://tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc3536bis/ -- which I suggested as useful reading in my short remarks last Saturday, and which is also mentioned in the documents we've put out. Note that we orginally referred to the -01 draft, but -02 is out and is currently in last call. It would be great if people who read that and found it helpful -- or especially if not -- sent some remarks to the authors or to the working group.
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