Re: Behaviour of U+002F in IE and Mozilla

2004-08-18 Thread Hooman Mehr
in the other way). Do you know which systems actually implement 4.0.1 bidi algorithm? Does installing your latest FriBidi library completely address this issue on Linux? Hooman Mehr ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu

Re: [Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

2004-06-25 Thread Hooman Mehr
Hi Behdad, On Jun 26, 2004, at 1:50 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I'm confused now. What do you expect in PropList.txt about U+060D? If you read UCD.html, it says that files like PropList.txt just list those code points that hold a true value for the binary property. Why they don't list the all??

[Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

2004-06-19 Thread Hooman Mehr
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Re: Mirroring in Unicode

2004-06-12 Thread Hooman Mehr
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Re: Mirroring in Unicode

2004-06-12 Thread Hooman Mehr
file that can be easily edited with sys. admin. privileges. I think someone already posted information on a fixed and enhanced Persian Mac OS X keyboard on the list. - Hooman Mehr On Jun 12, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Behnam wrote: On 12-Jun-04, at 8:50 AM, Hooman Mehr wrote: On the other hand, I suspect

Re: Mirroring in Mac OS X (was Mirroring in Unicode)

2004-06-12 Thread Hooman Mehr
sad position in bidi support. The problems are deep rooted and want a real effort and will in high management positions to solve. - Hooman Mehr On Jun 12, 2004, at 7:51 PM, Behnam wrote: Short of missing something on the list, that would be me providing alternatives to Apple standard keyboards

Re: khaat e Farsi

2004-06-11 Thread Hooman Mehr
. Anybody with access to linguist know of a short common Persian term to use for the family of writing systems that use and extend Arabic alphabet and its basic rules. I don't think they call the quoted phrase Khaat e Farsi. Khaat e Farsi is a member of that group. - Hooman Mehr

Re: Mirroring in Unicode

2004-06-11 Thread Hooman Mehr
, but it is still in early stages of being put on paper. Everything is still mostly in my head, help pull it out on paper in an understandable way. - Hooman Mehr On Jun 11, 2004, at 7:34 AM, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Hi Behdad, I just finished finding the relevant part (Rule L4 of UAX #9) of Unicode specs

Re: khaat e Farsi

2004-06-11 Thread Hooman Mehr
can live with Arabi [2] but I don't really like it. Look at the other two examples above, Roman or Cyrillic on themselves are identifiable as being script names but Arabic is not. That is why I am still asking people to bring up new ideas. - Hooman Mehr [1] Script covers more than just alphabet

Re: UI problems in editing BiDi texts.

2004-06-10 Thread Hooman Mehr
and select the best alternatives. Alright, I know, we don't live in an ideal world (or Iran) and we really can't expect to go after this issue in a really systematic way, but lets try to deal with it the best we can. - Hooman Mehr [1] If you have missed that post, look for Persian GUI Design

[History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread Hooman Mehr
in that issue are very interesting. I found out about them on the list (there was a post by Saber Soleimani). The articles are not officially online, and I am not aware of any other online options for obtaining it. If you are interested and don't have access to the articles, please let me know. - Hooman

Re: Locale requirement of Persian in Iran, first public draft

2004-06-07 Thread Hooman Mehr
Standard and Pro work properly and they are expensive if you just want to search or copy text... By the way, one of the potential places that we need a project Defined in FarsiLinux project is a Persian compatible PDF generator and viewer. - Hooman Mehr

Re: [History] My Story, part 1 (1236 words)

2004-06-07 Thread Hooman Mehr
on Hooman spelling and got it even on my passport. - Hooman Mehr ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-20 Thread Hooman Mehr
Hi Connie, OK, white flag up! I'll write some crime stories. But don't expect anything this week, I am very busy. Hooman On May 20, 2004, at 2:16 AM, C Bobroff wrote: Dear Hooman, I may move these stories to my pending weblog which hopefully will open in the next several days. Why should you

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-19 Thread Hooman Mehr
Mehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 18, 2004, at 2:48 AM, C Bobroff wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: P.S.: Although Hijri calendar (and definition of the prayer times) look very strange and primitive, there is a very good philosophical reason behind it which makes sense once you know

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

2004-05-19 Thread Hooman Mehr
prevent me from posting often. 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. Hooman On May 19, 2004, at 10:24 AM, C Bobroff wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: On a second thought, I

Re: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-17 Thread Hooman Mehr
, the more confident the future estimate the better, but some calendar systems simply don't permit this by their very definition. I don't know the approach taken by the contractors for the calendar project in FarsiLinux, can someone comment on this? Hooman Mehr [Endnote: Official observer

Re: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-17 Thread Hooman Mehr
differences and it won't be unreasonable to expect an OS to support it. On May 17, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:55, Hooman Mehr wrote: It comes upwith an initial estimate (or best guess) of the *adjusted* calendarwhich is usually only re-adjusted for Ramadan

Re: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-16 Thread Hooman Mehr
for none-Iranians. With the same logic one may suggest using Iranian Primary Calendar instead of Iranian Calendar to emphasize the fact that more than one official regional calendar exists in Iran. My final verdict? I need to sleep on it for a while. Hooman Mehr On May 15, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Behdad

Re: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-16 Thread Hooman Mehr
sense since that's what this calendar is called in English, so ours is the *Iranian* Islamic Calendar. And then Iranian Calendar and Iranian Islamic Calendar should be clear enough that which one's primary and which secondary. behdad On Sun, 16 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: Hi Behdad, I have

Persian GUI Design Specifications Guidelines

2004-05-11 Thread Hooman Mehr
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