Hello.
We have a large body of material that contains Arabic - which I have no intention of or competence to
deal with in Arabic - but which means our handlists contain transliterated names etc. This requires
certain special characters, for which see the section at the bottom of p. 13 in the ALA-LC Romanization
tables. Of these, there seem to be no SGML entities for alif (hamzah), ayn or the dot below modifier
(USMARC hexadecimal codes AE, B0 and F2 apparently). Without going for an Arabic character entity
set (which may not contain transliteration characters anyway) is there a standard entity set that supplies
these?
Thank you
Richard Higgins
Durham University Library
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