[snip] > I'm sure this dictionary must have been funded by the Iranian > government and no profits expected. I'm shocked to see that less than > a dozen US universities have purchased it. I should think the author > and publisher would be very happy to see it put online and all the > efforts go to some use. Surely they will agree if their name is kept > with the data! As for the technical part, I no longer have any doubts > as to the abilities of the members of this group, especially after > hearing the keyboard hack job for the sake of the ZWNJ earlier today!
:-) I did the keyboard job just because I thought it's a lot easier to use Shift+Space instead of Shift+B, and also because I was in the process of typing in a lot of Persian data. It took only about half an hour (not the time to download the MSKLC tool of course) and improved my typing speed considerably. About your proposal, I'm personally interested in doing the technical part of the job. I volunteer to implement a web interface for the dictionary, and I can also provide the hosting for the web interface. I can provide some amount of web space for the data as well, but I think we'll need other people's help as well, because I would guess the whole data would be *huge*. If the data has to reside on multiple web servers, I can code some sort of distributed query mechanism which transparently fetches the definitions for remote web servers and display them to the end user transparently. ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
