--- Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> I think it is a Kaf followed by an Alif. You are
> certainly right that this
> ligature is not used in Farsi (I opened an Iranian
> font, and there is no
> trace of it); probably it is not very common even in
> Arabic typography in
> general.

We also have that ligature in handwriting. But it's
really hard for me to think of that thing being
Kaf-Alef. The left part has more slope than an Arabic
writer can think of for an Alef. There's a sense
behind
the Alef you know.

And about the Persian fonts, yes, there's rarely any
ligature other than Lam-Alef. People don't like
ligatures in print.

--roozbeh


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