On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, AmirBehzad Eslami wrote: > e-Greetings, > > I saw http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/format.htm, > But a note: > > As described in the book "Nogh-teh GozAri" (The official Persian Manual of Editing, > Vol.5, Punctuaion Book) written by "Mohammad-RezA Mohammadi-Far", page 460: > > It is not correct to use comma (",") or U+06CC to separate every group of thousands > in numbers. Instead, the editor must use the Persian letter 'Reh (U+0631)'.
A few notes: - Mr Mohammadi-Far's book as not Official by any means. - It doesn't say to use "re", say's that it's the common practice, and better than using comma or slash. - The "re" shape is in many places of old typography used instead of decimal separator. - The sole reason that the correct thousands separator, the one that looks like an apostrophe is not ever used in traditional typography is for physicial limitations. Otherwise, we have all learnt from our early years of school to use that little piece almost above the digits, not at their base. behdad > Bedrood, > BEHzad > _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
