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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