J2ME in Farsi

2004-06-03 Thread Massoud Tan.
Hello everyone, I was just wondering if thereis existing work done to use Farsi language (input and output) on J2ME devices such as Java enabled mobile phones and PDAs? I amlooking forprevious workon fonts, Farsi editors, support for calendar features, etc. I appreciate any information. Thanks,

Nazanin

2004-06-03 Thread J H
Hi, I read some of your Nazanin discussions from 2002. Now I am wondering if someone somewhere has created a completely legal and working freeware version of Nazanin or a font that is similar to it? MS perhaps, or ... I am totally confused. Should I worry about Linotype or Sinasoft or the other

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

2004-06-03 Thread Pedram Safari
Hi there, I think Connie's answer is well put. I just need to make a note to clarify a point. Quoting Behdad Esfahbod: I guess I did my part on showing the community, including Dr Pedram Safari, that the claim by Masoud Hashemi regarding authoring the dictionary which is apparently Aryanpour,

Misinformation!

2004-06-03 Thread Ordak D. Coward
I recently came across this article http://www.khabgard.com/?id=844986758 which is endorsed by some other weblog authors. The author encourages using adifferent Yeh characters for middle and end placements. The author in fact uses U+064A(ARABIC LETTER YEH) for middle-of-word and beginning-of-word

Re: Persian-English Dictionary

2004-06-03 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Just my last words: * Like Mr Khanban, as I wrote in my long report before, I checked it with the one-volume Aryanpur dictionary and all 20 entries I checked matched perfectly. * Even if people have changed 90% of it, the rest 10% is copyrighted by Aryanpurs. Copyright holders accumulate, not

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

2004-06-03 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Pedram Safari wrote: I do not know about pronunciation, but the dictionary at http://www.math.columbia.edu/~safari/dictionary/ (which was discussed above) is transliteration-based (using the so-called mikhi alphabet, available on the right side of the page), if that is

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-03 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: I recently came across this article http://www.khabgard.com/?id=844986758 which is endorsed by some other weblog authors. The author encourages using adifferent Yeh characters for middle and end placements. Oh my! I think someone was listening to