--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 17:22 -0400 2004-08-05, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >(Why are the Arabic letter names given in some colloquial? "beh"

is

> >impossible in Standard Arabic; the name is baa'.)
>
> The spellings of the characters as named in the
> Unicode Standard are given for the convenience of
> its users.

Which version? It's ALEF, not ALIF, at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf !

Richard.