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 _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing