Ali, The Word doc problem is not just limited to the 2 yeh's in Persian. I've sent Persian Word docs to people using various versions of Windows (without anyone deliberately changing any settings) and several letters have been transposed from the recipient's point of view. As for web pages, it appears for Persian you have to design a seperate page for each browser! You will note that on many (most?) Persian web sites catering to an international audience you'll find the standard "my site can only be viewed on a Windows machine running IE 5+". >From what I gather, Microsoft made some error in the very beginning and switched the 2 yehs. But now the wrong way has become so well entrenched that it's become the "right" way and the problem continues to propagate itself. >From what I see with Netscape 4.x, Persian sites normally look fine with just some bidirectional problems. As for NS 6.2, the direction problem is solved but the 2 yehs are "corrected" and if there are any small vowels in the text, they break up the words. (Therefore I'd prefer the results in the earlier 4.x to that!) >From my limited use of Mozilla, I've found the results to be pretty much the same as IE concerning the yeh's (and again, I mean if no one has tinkered with the default settings.) And I should mention, if you can expect your user to download one of the many free Persian fonts out there (you know the ones, the "non-standard" ones everyone seems to be using) it will mask the 2 dots problem on final yeh's although nothing can of course be done about the problem with the final yeh (what looks like alef maksura) coming in medial position. The "times new roman" font (the windows default) will show the 2 dots on the final yeh if you have that yeh there since that font is used for Arabic as well. So I guess you have the moral question again: correct the yehs and do the future generations a favor and help standardize Persian computing OR make your website usable NOW for majority of users even though you may have to redo everyting tomorrow! Not an easy question!! -Connie
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