On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Saber XP wrote:
> thanks for your reply.
> why i see your presentation show with error in medical "YEH"? what's the
> problem with my font(s)? I've to update them?
> (see attachment)
Your fonts have bugs with Persian Yeh then. Try these:
http://www.farsiweb.info/font/parsa.zip
(Note that these are not standard compliant, they only fix the Persian Yeh
bug.)
> > > 1- what's differences between U+06CC and U+0649 ? which one is default
> for
> > > "YEH"?
> >
> > U+06CC is the Persian Yeh. U+0649 is the Arabic Yeh that always has two
> > dots under it, even in final and isolated forms.
> but both of them are dotless in Tahoma font, only U+064A have dots.
Oh, My mistake! U+0649 in the Arabic Alef Maksura, and it should be
dotless in all its forms (appearing as a single "dandaane" in medial and
initial forms). Until Windows 2000, Microsoft's OpenType engine treated
U+0649 as a right-joining letter only. I don't know what is the exact case
about Windows and Office XP.
> > > 3- is tahoma the only standard font that supports uni code?
>
> > That depends on how one defines a "standard font".
> I mean the fonts that are built in in windows, not like NESF. and thanks for
> letting me know courier supports unicode.
> what about arial? and medical YEH problem in it.
These Microsoft fonts from Windows 2000 support Persian letters of
Unicode. That doesn't mean they don't have bugs, or they support is
complete or standard: Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Tahoma,
Traditional Arabic, Arabic Transparent, Arial Unicode,
But they are more standard than Nesf. Nesf is only a temporary hack.
> I want to know except true type fonts are there any kind of fonts on the
> windows platform.
Actually, OpenType is a superset of TrueType, and the politically correct
term is that you should use OpenType from now on: TrueType is a dead
specification. But Windows also support bitmap fonts (.FON) which can't
support Persian Unicode. You can also get PostScript fonts if you
install Adobe ATM, but PostScript fonts are worse for Persian.
> you may answer this email in mailing list, I avoid sending it to mailing
> list because there is an attachment.
Did so. :)
roozbeh
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