> > The > > purpose of such standards should not be to tell people how to write > > Farsi. People decide how to write Farsi. The standard should encode > > and standardize what people write.
Exactly! Is it not crazy that word processors are being made to *emulate* old-fashioned typewriters which, because it was not practical for typewriters to include all the beautiful variety of characters that the human hand + pen + paper could do let certain characters fall out of use in certain kinds of mass-produced publications! Now a generation has grown up deprived of them. And then they go and advise Microsoft and Microsoft then dictates. (Look at the use of Western style numerals on all Middle East websites if you really want to appreciate the problem.) Now a plea to all you silent lurkers: It would be really nice if you could drop a line to Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?LN=EN-US and tell them to include this character in the Times New Roman font. We're talking about: Arabic letter heh with yeh above, hex: 06C0, Dec: 1728 Times New Roman is the global default font yet it is lacking this character. And if people are unable to download one of the many Persian fonts that do have this letter, what is viewed is the letter "teh marbuta". There is no use having this unicode discussion if the default browser font can't display the character, right? And Microsoft only "notices" when bombarded with lots of complaints about bugs. Thanks, Connie _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
