Re Mostafa Modirrousta's message of 11 Jun 2003:
> This program of yours, it is not free, is it?
No, but you can try it out by typing short passages of 10 lines or so with the
online demo.
> Also, there is a link on your page to Eurofarsi or something like
> that. As a movement which has no authority over Persian language, this
> site offers no valuable information, insight, or help, to Persian
> writing people around the world. It only adds to the problems!
You're probably right, but I think it's interesting to see a different approach
-- however eccentric you may think it is! Incidentally, it's meant to help
Persian-_speaking_ people -- not all of whom are Persian-_writing_. In
practice, of course, people use the Latin alphabet in an informal way,
writing "Janam" if they're in an English-speaking environment, & "Djanam"
or maybe "Dschanam" if they're in France or Germany.
> Learning new combination of latin alphabets for Persian characters per
> se is not that new or helping.
<...>
> I have the keyboard already available to me, in XP, and I would
> only need to learn which letter is where ;)
That's true, but it's surely easier to type the letters "zban farsi" (PerScript
on a QWERTY kbd) than "cfhk thvsX" (I think that's roughly what you would
have to type using the MS Farsi kbd: miraculously, the letter Sin is
generated by the S key!). It all depends on how familiar you already are
with the QWERTY kbd, I suppose. PerScript also simplifies typing the
different letters for H, T, S and Z: for example you simply type z, Z, z\ and
Z\ for Ze, Zad, Zal & Za.
Another important benefit of PerScript is that it can generate an automatic
hidden transliteration of utf-8 Persian text on webpages: this makes editing
the HTML source code much easier, since you can see at a glance where you
are in the text. The same technique is available in PerScribe (the MS Word
program for W 98): the example we've chosen is a well-known beyt from
Sa`di, which was included in a message addressed to Persian-speakers in
outer space (see, or should I say hear, the audio link at:
http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/pers_web.htm
With Windows 98 it seems to me that you have to use something like the
PerScript approach, or Jon D.'s converter, since Farsi support isn't available.
Nigel
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