On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] Mr. Pournader had mentioned that he would summarize the discussion > points,
Unfortunately I can't do that, since the discussions did not converge. > and even try to reach a consensus/decision. Again, I can't base any decision based on the discussions, since there was nothing about the reason behind the phrase in the ISIRI standard. The reason, can be found here: http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/farsiweb/2002-June/thread.html#start (Read the thread with Heh+Yeh as the subject) > I know from my perspective, backward compatibility is very important. Unicode broke a little of that backward compatiblity in Unicode 3.0. > I am also wondering if the decision by the "experts", was based on > perhaps guidlines from Farsi Linguists in Iran? Yes. See http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/farsiweb/2002-June/000276.html > I have been > surfing various Farsi sites, such as Iranian newspapers, > and have not seen anyone using the proposed format for > HEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE (HEH + YEH). No Heh+Yeh is proposed in the ISIRI standard. Just that if you want to encode "Heh with Hamza above" aka "Heh with Small Yeh above" in your text, you should not use the U+06C0 character, but a sequence of two characters U+0657, U+0654. > however, I can see that if the IT standards are not > consistent with the linguistic standards, we will always > have to have these discussion as why the difference in > the standards. They are consistent. We have tried our best to make sure everyone can encode their text without problems and consistently. We have not forced any linguistic rules in the text of the standard. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
