Web Form: Subj: Jawi letters

Doug Ewell dewell at adelphia.net
Thu Jul 22 08:01:06 CEST 2004


Yasmin Khan <Yasmin underscore Khan85 at hotmail dot com> wrote via
Magda Danish (Unicode) <v dash magdad at microsoft dot com>:

> I'm currently trying to write a program where kids can learn how to
> spell in a language called Bahasa Jawi (or Jawi in short). This is a
> language based on the Arabic letters.

"written with"

> The letters can be found on this
> link: http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulisan_Jawi

I can't find this language in ISO 639.  Ethnologue lists a Djawi and a
Jawe, but no Jawi, Bahasa anything, or Tulisan anything.  How would this
language be coded?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/




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