My problem with hamza is not so much *typing* it, as figuring out what it is. The one in Qur'an gets written to look like both a 'c' and a reversed 'c' in different places, but these (as I understand things) are really 2 different characters. The glyphs in Characer Viewer are so numerous and variable that they leave this Arabic-illiterate baffled. I don't wan't to use a single quote, because I find it necessary to switch between 'Educate Quotes' and 'Straighten Quotes' when using Find&Replace to insert unicode gobbledogook. What *is* that thing in Qur'an? It is often written differently from the one in 'Umar. Surely somebody on this list knows about these arcane matters!

Cheers,

Ferren
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> On 04.01.2012, at 11:16, Knut S. Vikør wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, these two are not among the characters you can type with
>> the US Extended keyboard, so you are forced to use Character Viewer,
>> unless you hav PopChar or one of the more spcialized keyboard layouts
>> that let you type it directly
> 
> Why not use the inbuilt Nisus Glossary feature to accomplish things like
> that? One could assign a simple abbreviation (such as "c9") to a glossary
> entry and when typed it would then be expanded immediately, giving you
> the character you are looking for. That would be a bit faster than having
> to grab the mouse and then look for the character in PopChar. The same
> could be achieved system wide with Typinator (or any other glossary
> tool).
> 
> Þorvarður
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