On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, C Bobroff wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
> >    http://www.farsiweb.info/locale/locale-0.6.pdf
>
> Congratulations on getting a new typist who is not allergic to
> Hamzeh's!
> But where did all the Kasreh's marking Ezafeh's go this time? And why no
> ZWNJ on plural -Ha's?

Well, Roozbeh should give the answer, but my guess:  It's typeset
in Persian Academy's orthography.

> Is that really true you aren't supposed to put a written Kasreh after
> given names? I know it's definitely not ok (spoken or written) with
> "Rezaa" ending in long "aa" but with "Mohsen" ending in a consonant? I
> believe it is common to both write and pronounce the "-e" there between
> given and family name. Please inform me.

No, Kasreh Ezafe is neither used in written names, nor in spoken
formally.

> By the way, I have received a PDF file from Iran recently in Persian and
> it was possible to copy and paste from the PDF text into Notepad and all
> the letters came out perfectly, only the letters were running backwards
> from left to right.  I can't seem to copy and paste with yours. It ends up
> in garbage characters. Wish I knew these PDF secrets!

No idea.

> -Connie

--behdad
  behdad.org
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