Fariborz: I do not think this is the place or Forum for debating this issue.
Still, I'm curious. How come everyone on this discussion board is using the Latin alphabet? :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
