[Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue #147: Proposed Deprecation of U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW

[John C Klensin]

--On Monday, June 01, 2009 12:52 -0700 Erik van der Poel
<erikv at google.com> wrote:

> Removed ietf at ietf.org
> 
> I did not find any occurrences in a large sample of IDNs on
> the Web.

Out of curiosity, how many IDNs did you find that used

	--Arabic characters at all?
	
	--Arabic characters that could reasonably be seen as
	"decorated" (e.g., combining a base character with a
	combining character, whether expressed that way in
	Unicode or not)?

If the answer to either question is in the range of "few", I'm
not sure that any inference from the inability to find that one
particular character construction tells us very much.

    john