On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:56, C Bobroff wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > > > That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. > > > > I think it's supposed to be a feature. [...] > > I know. That's the reason I used the term "misfeature" instead of "bug" > or something.
No. That is simply a bug. People started to forget Persian numerals just after microsoft did this. To back my opinion just note that in the old Dos era everyone used Persian numerals. And the simple reason that MS did this bug *intentionally* is that their application does not parse Persian numeralas as numeric data, so if you type 12 with Persian digits in a font-size box in Office, it would give error. So if they were to put Persian digits on keyboard, people need to switch to English to write any number (see what happenes in Excel). And if they where to allow (let people know it's possible) to type Persian digits, people would request Persian digits in their Excel spreadsheets that was not possible. So they simply removed Persian digits from the keyboard, and as there was no Persian costumer, they predicted no one is gonna ask them... behdad > > Persian speakers seem to be fast "forgetting" how to read Nasta`liq. > > Well, almost nobody can read even the text of their (the Calligrapher > Association's) arm... ;) > > roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
