> > The
> > purpose of such standards should not be to tell people how to write
> > Farsi. People decide how to write Farsi. The standard should encode
> > and standardize what people write.
Exactly! Is it not crazy that word processors are being made to *emulate*
old-fashioned typewriters which
Abi Lover wrote:
>> From: Ali Khanban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> It seems to me that these are all different shapes of one letter
>> . But is a mixture of two letters: and
>> a transformed . It is not even a ligature, because it is not
>> supposed to be handled by font to write instead of
>From: Ali Khanban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Abi Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [farsiweb]Farsi, heh, +, hamzeh, above
>Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:41:57 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>It seems to
Hi,
It seems to me that these are all different shapes of one letter
. But and a
transformed . It is not even a ligature, because it is not supposed
to be handled by font to write instead of .
Best
-khanban-
Abi Lover wrote:
> I don' agree with Khanban's reasons for not using the letter f
I don' agree with Khanban's reasons for not using the letter form . The same reasons could be given for not using . For example, {mas'ul} could also be written as {mas ool} (with alef instead of hamzeh), and {so'a^l} could also be written as {so aal} (with alef-madd instead of hamzeh); and it i
