Re: [farsiweb]Kurdish Language

2003-04-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Shervin Afshar wrote: I believe that Kurdi language has not a written form and it uses farsi script. No, you're wrong. It indeed has a written form and has some special letters only used in Kurdish. I can't point to a specific resource (I am indeed searching for

[farsiweb]Unicode Advertisement

2003-04-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Hong Kong [Special Administrative Region] government is advocating ISO 10646 (a.k.a. Unicode) by creating flash animations: http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/images/cli/iso.swf Funny! roozbeh ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [farsiweb]Kurdish Language

2003-04-05 Thread Okhtay Ilghami
As far as I know, they have six special characters: 1 - Ye with a hat to represent e: 2 - Vav with a hat to represent o 3 - Lam with a hat to represent some weird form of l 4 - Vav with three dots on it to represent v (which is different from w, represented by Vav itself). Note the difference

[farsiweb]Test2

2003-04-05 Thread Mazdak A.M
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[farsiweb]Unicode character names (was Re: Unicode Advertisement)

2003-04-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, C Bobroff wrote: If unicode is so scrupulously attentive to details of standardization, why is the naming scheme so haphazard? Because of very tight constraints set by ISO, and a requirement of ISO that the names stay the same forever, even if mistakes are found in them.

[farsiweb]Re: [PersianComputing] Unicode character names (was Re: UnicodeAdvertisement)

2003-04-05 Thread C Bobroff
and a requirement of ISO that the names stay the same forever, even if mistakes are found in them. Standards need to guarantee stabilities to some degree in order to be implemented, and character names looked one of the promising cases. I see now! Thank you once again for the enlightenment.