Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- 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 !

Again, ALEF isn't possible in Standard Arabic. It's ALIF.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...