On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, C Bobroff wrote:

> Because there is a shortage of Persian geeks in the world! 

Any ideas about how can that be changed?

> Although I wonder where the people publishing the literary magazines/books
> are getting their training?

There is usually a closed circle of (copy?) editors who learn their job
through master-apprentice relations. (I have had the honor to work with
two of the technically-oriented ones when I was working on the typography
side of the book "Mathematics Olymiad in Iran" seven years ago.)

> Ok, when you get around to it, post the publishing info.

It's "khabarnaame-ye anformaatik, nashrie-ye khabari-takhassosi-e
showraa-ye aali-e anformaatik-e keshvar, saal-e hashtom, shomaare-ye 1 va
2, ordibehesht va tir-e 1372, shomaare-ye mosalsal 53". It is labeled
"vizhe-ye estaandaard-e kod-e tabaadol-e ettelaa'aat-e faarsi". The
contact information for HCI can be found at <http://www.shci.ir/>.

> I'm sure they'll get around to it one day. Hopefully the "experts" will
> have a clue next time.  I have  a sneaking suspicion that they don't have
> anyone doing Persian typography on their staff.

They claim they even have Persian Quality Assurance staff!! One of my
contacts with them is also Iranian, and has been something like the head
of complex (Middle Eastern and Indic) scripts division of Windows for some
years.

> I'd put some info on ZWNJ on my Persian wordprocessing FAQ a long time
> ago. Now I will add some details I've picked up from this discussion (esp
> on ZWJ) and illustrate with some real text for folks who'd like to have
> some choice. I hope that'll be helpful and not cause too much damage.

Please post the URL here (and on FarsiWeb mailing list) after you did it.

> You all come out snorting, hee-hawing, and neighing when Saber posts a
> URL to a site requiring a password and forgets to provide the password
> or when there's a heh+hamzeh war.

Not really, I would have expected much more people to participate in the
Heh+Hamza war, since it was a very hot topic. Honestly, I was
dissappointed! ;)

roozbeh

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