On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 05:09, C Bobroff wrote: > I don't understand why all the Arabic Yehs on Persian websites and > documents. Some sort of hot fashion? Plain ignorance??
It's CP1256 legacy. The original version didn't have a Persian Yeh, so people started using the Arabic one instead. It stuck, sometimes through the alread-encoded information, sometimes through the ignorance of the people. > I tried to bring some attention to the Final Yeh with dots problem a long > time ago for the newbies: > http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/yeh.htm Well, you've explained it well. So you know the answer. > Maybe they should just get an alert window: "Your font needs to be > updated. Click here." Although there will be problems if the > administrator has disabled downloads, etc. There will also be problems if the computer is not connected to the Internet, or the FarsiWeb website gets cracked, or the computer is an Apple box, or ... > Sorry, but I like my Persian to display correctly :) Just that? That's easy! ;) roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
