On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:27:20AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 11:18 , Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Since it seems that we won't make it for Monday the 8th (MakeMaker is > > still unfinished, and UTF-8 keys are still a bit dodgy, and so on), I > > guess small updates on Encode (docs certainly, and obvious bugs) are > > still okay-- and even the Farsi encodings, but please first ask > > Roozbeh Pournader ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) the guy that seems to be > > behind much of the Farsi computing stuff, whether (a) we should/could > > include the Farsi mappings (b) which mappings (c) there are additional > > complications we are not aware of (e.g. is it really just a simple > > table mapping, or is something algorithmic needed). > > I think you are mistaken Farsi for Indics. Farsi is extended Arabic > (script, that is) and it is indeed supported in MacFarsi already. BIDI > is tough but Encode does not (have to) care.
No, I'm not mistaken, I know that Farsi and Indics are different. While Googling for the Farsi encodings I just got worried by the frequent mentions of the bidi complications. But Roozbeh would know for certain, instead of us non-Farsi trying to sound like experts... -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
