Re: Persian-English Dictionary

2004-06-05 Thread Peyman
Hi, Just for your reference, here is a youngintelectual Iranian lawyer who is a computer engineer as well. He is an expert in software copyright issues. You can perhaps send your questions as an email to him. I know he is very receptive. Arshia Tabrizi http://www.tabrizilaw.com/htm/aboutus.htm

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 18:03, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Behdad, does Unicode consortium provide a search collation table in addition to the collation table used for sorting? Or can the same table be used for this seach purposes as well? Well, I'm not Behdad, but I guess I have some answers. The

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:04, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Is there a trustworhty easy-to-read document somewhere on the Internet that mentions all this issues that I can refer people to it? I don't know easy to read may mean. Perhaps Connie's pages are the best for that. For the more technical type,

Re: Persian-English Dictionary -- Was: Iranian Mac User group

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:46, C Bobroff wrote: Now,I wonder if some of you who are so experienced technically could do another dictionary project? At least as far as getting the data up in a legal way and then others could make the interface according to the needs of the target audience and

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:08, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I did this, and installed the new DLL on my system, and it works beatifully. It's the same keyboard layout, only Shift+Space inserts a ZWNJ instead of a space. I thought I would submit it to sourceforge so that everyone can use the new tool.

Persian fonts

2004-06-05 Thread Arafat Medini
Hi all, My name is Arafat Medini, I am from the Arabeyes team, and I wanted to ask the ppl responsible for the persian fonts package if they can give me the right to get the fonts included into the official gnome fonts distribution, the names will be mentioned for sure and the fonts will be used

RE: Persian-English Dictionary -- Was: Iranian Mac User group

2004-06-05 Thread C Bobroff
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I volunteer to implement a web interface for the dictionary, Excellent! You'll have to make it so that whether the user types in bi[ZWNJ]kaar, bikaar, or bi kaar, the word will be found! but I think we'll need other people's help as well, because I

Re: Persian-English Dictionary -- Was: Iranian Mac User group

2004-06-05 Thread C Bobroff
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: There are many claims that this doesn't add anything to the Mo'in Persian dictionary, How is that possible when it's physically twice as big? And now Pedram informs us it has a different approach, namely *definitions* rather than *synonyms*. and is