You know, everybody who's caring and sane enough to proofread, makes
sure these don't appear on paper (or sometimes on the computer screen),
but again, not all of these people care what it is that's stored in
their computers.
On the other hand, how much time it looks like they put into the
By the way, I just visited the BBC Persian site. In one article they were
using the Arabic Kaf and in another the Persian Keheh.
It should be called the Persian Kaf. Keheh is just a random identifier,
but the best available since it's the Unicode name. So, either Persian
Kaf or Keheh in my
They do get under the skin, yes, but it's a little worse than that if
you start seeing the two little dots everyday on announcements,
printouts, ads, ... It will get to your {maghz-e ostekhaan}.
Oh dear! You sound like an advanced case. I will schedule you for a
bone-marrow transplant right
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:50, C Bobroff wrote:
Just don't tell me the calligraphers have also joined the band-wagon and
are now putting the dots!
Fortunately they're not.
You know, everybody who's caring and sane enough to proofread, makes
sure these don't appear on paper (or sometimes on the
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:16, C Bobroff wrote:
But then once you do notice,
then you REALLY notice. Those two little dots get under your skin and it
starts to fester. You start to ONLY see the dots and the rest of the
content becomes a blur. Insanity is imminent. The only solution: Immediate
Behdad's Law: Connie is an optimist.
If you please! You need to trust Mr. Connie Genius on this one and keep
the faith. This is just a case of public awareness. As long as you don't
notice those dots, everything is blissful. Maybe they are just stray
marks? Maybe your screen just needs cleaning?
... so many
sites are using wrong characters. It certainly affects the search
engines.
Hehe. The humans don't seem to notice but the search engines balk. Seems
like it should be the reverse!
By the way, this is yet another reason I offer up thanks to Roozbeh,
Behnam (and others) for the new
C Bobroff wrote:
By the way, this is yet another reason I offer up thanks to Roozbeh,
Behnam (and others) for the new Persian keyboard as the Arabic Yeh is
only a convenient Shift key away and makes for much more fruitful Google
searches!
But it seems some big Persian sites do not have or use
What should we do about this?
Go stand up on your roof and shout:
The fonts have been repaired! It's now ok to use Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh
U+06CC!!
But as far as I know, BBC has never been one of the offenders although I'm
too lazy at the moment to check that and the other site mentioned
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 21:49, C Bobroff wrote:
By the way, this is yet another reason I offer up thanks to Roozbeh,
Behnam (and others) for the new Persian keyboard as the Arabic Yeh is
only a convenient Shift key away and makes for much more fruitful Google
searches!
Well, thank the original
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 03:31, C Bobroff wrote:
OK, I took up your challenge and just emailed Yahoo. Don't blame me when
we discover they've replaced Arabic Yeh with CYRILLIC LETTER YA U+042F!
I don't like it. I wasn't challenging you. 'Was challenging the silent
lurkers.
roozbeh
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