Unfortunately this kind of misinforming is quite popular in weblogs, where people only care about being visible to more people. They even go on and use HTML entities (like ٚ) instead of UTF-8, just because if the user's browser is set to something other than auto and UTF-8, the page is still rendered correctly...
Ehsan, you here? b On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: > I recently came across this article > http://www.khabgard.com/?id=844986758 which is endorsed by some other > weblog authors. The author encourages using adifferent Yeh characters > for middle and end placements. The author in fact uses U+064A(ARABIC > LETTER YEH) for middle-of-word and beginning-of-word Yeh's and uses > U+06CC (ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH) for end-of-word Yeh's. I believe he > is giving bad advice to people. His jsutification is that people with > older MS-Windows systems will see texts correctly by his suggestion. > This is bad principle to bend standards to support non-comppliant > platforms. I am going to send an e-mail to him about the issue, but I > want to confirm my understanding of the issue before contacting the > author. > > Furthemore, while he correctly asks people to use U+06F4, U+06F5, and > U+06F6 in place of U+0664, U+0665, and U+0666, he stops there and does > not extend this advice to all digits. > > Is there a trustworhty easy-to-read document somewhere on the Internet > that mentions all this issues that I can refer people to it? > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
