Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread Bob_Hallissy
It isn't. That is, Persian YEH isn't available in CP1256. I've seen some Farsi fonts and a common hack is to swap the isolate final forms of Arabic Yeh (d237, U+064A) with those of Alef Maksura (d236, U+0649), thus turning d237 into a Farsi yeh, and permitting d236 to be used should they need

Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Bob's completely right. CP1256 is not adequate for Persian (Microsoft confirms this). Systems that use it for Persian usually use the hack that Bob described. roozbeh On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't. That is, Persian YEH isn't available in CP1256. I've seen some Farsi

Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Roozbeh Pournader [EMAIL PROTECTED] CP1256 has never supported FARSI YEH. No it's not. Persian locale is only avaiable on Windows 2000 and XP, which are Unicode based. Unfortunately, it is a bit more complicated then that. GetLocaleInfo/LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE for Farsi does

RE: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread Carl W. Brown
Pournader Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:18 AM To: Mark Leisher Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH? On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Mark Leisher wrote: Can someone tell me how the Persian YEH (U+06CC) is dealt with in a CP1256 context? Has the official mapping changed from

RE: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread Carl W. Brown
patches but I don't think that the MS folks ever did an Urdu patch. Carl -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:01 AM To: Carl W. Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH? Probably mistaken

Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-12 Thread David_Possin
\(michka\) Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/01 11:00 AM Please respond to Michael \(michka\) Kaplan To:Carl W. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH? Probably mistaken -- or a pirate version (pirate

CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-11 Thread Mark Leisher
Can someone tell me how the Persian YEH (U+06CC) is dealt with in a CP1256 context? Has the official mapping changed from the following page? http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1256.htm Or perhaps the 0xFF YEH BARREE is assumed to be Persian YEH in the Persian locale. I

Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

2001-10-11 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
/ - Original Message - From: Mark Leisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:50 PM Subject: CP1256 and Persian YEH? Can someone tell me how the Persian YEH (U+06CC) is dealt with in a CP1256 context? Has the official mapping changed from the following page