> All these problems with the Arabic script makes me a believer in changing our >alphabet to a Latin-based one and getting rid of all these unnecessary headaches :-)
It is much easier to make the changes to the software to add the sorting rules of a new coding than it would be to retrain 70M+ people. BTW, what you suggest would transfer the problem somewhere else. So many of the words in Farsi are from Arabic base that in order to preserve the etymology of the words, you are forced to devise a one-to-one mapping of chars in Arabic glyph form to Latin form. So now you have the sorting problem somewhere else. I don't believe changing the char set would offer you any advantages either. I don't know if anyone would say that the state of comp. sci. or automation is markedly better in Turkey vs. Iran, for example. Turkey adopted the Latin char set some 70 years ago. It is interesting to observe, when visiting historical sites in Turkey, that most Turks can't read the poetry that is inscribed in stone in so many mosques and palaces. Sad indeed. Not adopting a Latin char set has not hurt Japan. -Fariborz _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
