On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote: > Instead of someone new asking every 3 months "how can I sort Persian?",
The whole problem is that people post questions without looking at the archives, or searching the Google. They look at the internet as an Oracle, instead of a knowledge base. > why doesn't one of you who is technically astute please compile all these > sorting patches and put them in one place with a description of bugs and > features of each and some step-by-step instructions on how to implement > them? Sure that will be good. I will be able to put any such HOWTO on the FarsiWeb web site, if that goes with the style of our other HOWTOs there, and doesn't recommend anything insane (read very non-standard). > The younger generation is going to get accustomed to looking at the > end of the alphabet for certain letters and not be sure whether heh or > vav comes first so better hurry! You're over-exaggerating. That won't happen in Iran. The young generation are clearly taught about the main order. It's the secondary order (Hamzas, Teh Marbuta, ...) that is still under debate. roozbeh _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
