On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote:
> What is the character on alt+control+d ? It's putting me in footnote mode.
> Possibly related to the fact I don't have MS Arial Unicode (or whatever
> it's now called) installed?? Or maybe that's supposed to be the tatweel??
It's [U+0649]. Its ISOLATED an
> Attached file [.pdf] is preview of New Persian Keyboard layout preview.
Thanks. That's very helpful. Must have taken quite some time to make!
What is the character on alt+control+d ? It's putting me in footnote mode.
Possibly related to the fact I don't have MS Arial Unicode (or whatever
it's
>>These are *combining* Maddah, Hamza Above, and Hamza Below.<<
Isn't that what I called "deadkeys" in another context? (Had no time to
look into SC Unipad so far to see how exactly they function...)
"smart quotes": I see your point, but please see my point too. There are
people editing bilingual
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote:
>
> > Standard shortcuts of Word for C, R, and T also work with the Persian
> > keyboard.
>
> Interesting news. I didn't know about them at all.
>
Combining of C, R and T with AltGr (also Ctrl+Alt in windows
> Depends on how you define "easy". Try!
If you don't redefine your concept of "easy", people are going to say it's
too hard to bother with this script and that's why they advocate
romanizing Persian.
Do you know just to enable FA input on a Windows machine is asking too
much for newbies? You sho
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote:
> Just over a space is fine but the font should be able to render it and the
> fontmakers don't always know what all people may want to type.
That's some other matter.
> If the fontmakers see it's a character on the keyboard, they might make
> an isolated fo
> You should put them either over a space, or a Tatweel (U+0640, the base
> line extender that looks like a '_').
>
Just over a space is fine but the font should be able to render it and the
fontmakers don't always know what all people may want to type. If the
fontmakers see it's a character on t
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote:
> No other keyboard I know for "extended Arabic" languages provides keytop
> positions for standalone versions of maddah, hamzah above and hamzah
> below, although it might make sense to use these keys as "deadkeys" to
> type compounded glyphs alef-madda, ale
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote:
> In a textbook, you might want to say, "This here is a maddah". In the
> past, I wanted to show what a superscript alif compared to fatha looks
> like and was not able to
You should put them either over a space, or a Tatweel (U+0640, the base
line exten
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote:
> Thanks for your efforts to provide us with an experimental version of
> the new standard keyboard layout for Persian !
You're welcome Peter. But please don't propagate it much, since that may
be changed.
> I tried the keyboard in Word2000/Win2000, using A
Hi Connie,
There's always the possibility to use Word's Insert Symbol feature for
rarely used symbols. No other keyboard I know for "extended Arabic"
languages provides keytop positions for standalone versions of maddah,
hamzah above and hamzah below, although it might make sense to use these
keys
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Behnam Esfahbod wrote:
> take a look at this mail.
>
> you can find the example at:
> - http://esfahbod.info/proj/web/test/ie/crash.html
>
> i'd tested the page with IE6 SP1 (latest microsoft update), and it crashed
> too!
I'm sorry, this is completely off-topic. Please st
> I am not quite sure in which context standalone
> versions of maddah, hamzah above and hamzah below are used, but assume
> they are there because they are in the Unicode standard.
In a textbook, you might want to say, "This here is a maddah". In the
past, I wanted to show what a superscript al
take a look at this mail.
you can find the example at:
- http://esfahbod.info/proj/web/test/ie/crash.html
i'd tested the page with IE6 SP1 (latest microsoft update), and it crashed
too!
--
To: BugTraq
Subject
Oops!
> 2. This is a Windows feature: Ctrl+Shift will act like AltGr/right Alt. If
> you have shortcut keys assigned to them, they may start to act in a weird
> way.
The truth is Ctrl+Alt act as AltGr (right Alt).
--
Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ]
___
<> refers to copyright,
registered, and trademark signs ...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linguasoft
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:25 PM
To: 'Roozbeh Pournader'; 'The FarsiWeb Mailing List'; 'Persian Computing
list'
Subject: RE: [farsi
Title: Message
Hi,When typing "o", substitution
of waw with hamzah (for alef) happens after using Backspace or Ctrl-Alt and then
Del, for example when clearing a line or the entire document in the test window,
and then typing a word beginning with "o"."Punctuation" I referred to
includes the
Dear Roozbeh,
Thanks for your efforts to provide us with an experimental version of
the new standard keyboard layout for Persian !
I tried the keyboard in Word2000/Win2000, using Arial Unicode MS which
displays all glyphs that can be generated via the keyboard except Riyal
sign and Subscript alef
Re Roozbeh Pournader's message of 12 Jun 2003:
> Do you really belive so?! It's definitely harder to type "zban farsi"
> than "cfhk thvsd" for the word "زبان فارسی" for almost
> everybody I know around here. And almost all of them are *more*
> familiar with the QWERTY keyboard than with the کمنتا
Re Peter E. Hauer's message of 12 Jun 2003:
Many thanks for your patient testing & feedback.
> I tried your demo at
> http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/fdemo_online.htm and found that
> some of the substitution rules you use are problematic (e.g., in the
> beginning of a new line, "oftad" genera
Using Microsoft's new keyboard creation tool, we created a keyboard layout
based on the latest committee draft for the future national Iranian
keyboard layout. You can download it at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/farsitools/persiankeyboard.zip?download
Important Note: This only works for W
Ever wanted to quickly and easily define your own keyboard layout for a language
Microsoft doesn't
support? Or define your own keyboard layout so you can quickly and easily enter your
favorite
symbols with a simple keystroke? Well, want no more: the Microsoft Keyboard Layout
Creator is
here!
Th
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> That's true, but it's surely easier to type the letters "zban farsi" (PerScript
> on a QWERTY kbd) than "cfhk thvsX"
Do you really belive so?! It's definitely harder to type "zban farsi"
than "cfhk thvsd" for the word "زبان فارسی" for almost everyb
Title: Message
Hi,
I tried your
demo at http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/fdemo_online.htm
and found that some of the substitution rules you use are problematic (e.g., in
the beginning of a new line, "oftad" generates ؤفتاد and NOT افتاد ; in front of
certain punctuation marks, "do" gene
Re Mostafa Modirrousta's message of 11 Jun 2003:
> This program of yours, it is not free, is it?
No, but you can try it out by typing short passages of 10 lines or so with the
online demo.
> Also, there is a link on your page to Eurofarsi or something like
> that. As a movement which has no au
25 matches
Mail list logo
