Re: LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
So, to conclude, I think we better don't touch the 33 implementations we have until we've got a real calendar. Just talking about FarsiWeb of course. Other people are free about what they choose. behdad On Mon, 24 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: I did some more research on the accuracy of

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 16:02, Omid K. Rad wrote: I don't have many calendars in hand here, but when I was in Iran I found many calendars that use 'Amordad' instead of 'Mordad'. I took a photo of the only Iranian calendar I have here for you too see an instance. Ah, that's an Eghbal calendar.

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:13, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: and Notepad is not an HTML editor What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8 BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard things and then pushes it so hard that Unicode adds it to parts of

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 10:25, C Bobroff wrote: Is there any way to type a hyphen that will resist break-up during wrapping? Use the Insert | Symbol menu in MS Word for lots of other things also, copyright symbols, non-breaking spaces, longer dashes, ... roozbeh

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:05, Hooman Mehr wrote: The fact that Iranian authorities in this regard act as if they are directly appointed by God is another story... Don't get hot, please. roozbeh PS: Where is this admin hat? I left it just here last time! :'-( roozbeh

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 01:48, C Bobroff wrote: Roozbeh, is it not time to remove the experimental from its name? No. This has not become a national standard yet. When it becomes a national standard (and possibly changing a little at the time), we'll remove experimental from the name. roozbeh

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:07, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: You can re-live its creation here in the archives: http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/0 00538.html [snip] Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not

Re: LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:28, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Another way to interpret this email is that Birashk's method fails to correctly predict the year 1403, and hence if we use that mehtod, all dates in year 1404 will be off by one day. On the other hand, using the 33 year period mentioned

Re: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:47, hameed afssari wrote: Microsoft Lunar Hijri calendar is based on Calculation of Saudi Arabian Authority and not Kuwait ... I can't confirm that. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar where it specifically mentions that: Microsoft uses the

Re: Hooman Mehr (was: Iranian Calendar)

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:46, Hooman Mehr wrote: One more thing, the reason that I may seem talented for story telling is that I am an INFP (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html), so be-warned. Ah, I can't confirm that, since it's too psychological. But Hooman talks a lot! ;) I can't

Re: LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-24 Thread Ordak D. Coward
I downloaded and tested a few dates with the Win32 executable of Jalali (the one at sourceforge). The bad news is that, the conversion is not correct. The conversion is wrong for 20 March 2005, and similarly a few other dates that should convert to 30 Esfand Year YYLP, instead all such dates