Microsoft Word help says that you can do this by typing
Ctrl-Shift-Hyphen instead of hyphen.
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ODC
On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:55:50 -0700 (PDT), C Bobroff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Actually, all this off-topic mix of calendars and philosophy
> has reminded me that when I was writing something (
Actually, all this off-topic mix of calendars and philosophy
has reminded me that when I was writing something (in English) a few
months ago on Al-Biruni, whenever his name came up at the end of the line
in Word, it would wrap and so the "Al-" would be on one line and the
"Biruni" would go down to
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote:
> On a second thought, I got reluctant
> to discuss this matter on the list. It would be way off topic.
> Moreover, I am afraid that whatever I say could be interpreted as
> political statement or religious evangelism and start flamewars.
Looks like Fortun
It appears taking a break is the best cure. Some progress:
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> Why it doesn't work in Notepad?
You're right. It DOES work in Notepad and it had worked the very first
time I'd try to replace ZWNJ with \u200c. The reason I didn't know it had
been a success
Dear Hooman,
I am not trying to be annoyingly responsive, it is just a bad habit!
What you said is fine, but I have to add that a calendar authority --
be it a person, a group, or just an algorithm -- is necessary in
resolving conflicts in observation of the date and time. For example,
if a cont
> First of all, thank you very much for all the patient and lengthy
> explanations. Very nice of you to share so many tips!
> (Thanks to the others too who answered on and off list!)
Happy to help!
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> Now that 2 people have said to change ZWNJ to \u200c, I tried that but
> it didn't work. I
> An important note: what Notepad does here is only "acceptable". It's
> not even recommended. HTML 4 clearly doesn't allow a UTF-8 BOM appear
> before the HTML tag. Notepad is supposed to be a text editor. A text
> editor shouldn't insert markup by itself. BTW, ISIRI 6219 strongly
> discourages th
On May 18, 2004, at 2:48 AM, C Bobroff wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote:
P.S.: Although Hijri calendar (and definition of the prayer times)
look
very strange and primitive, there is a very good philosophical reason
behind it which makes sense once you know it. Do you know the reason
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Omid K. Rad wrote:
> But since I was drawn to this calendar thing I realized that the correct
> word is actually 'Amordad'
Recommend you avoid "correcting" anything. Once you make a decision to
"correct" one thing, you'll end up having to correct more and more and
then it wi
On Tue, 18 May 2004 02:58:05 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote:
>
>
> > - Jalali vs Iranian. I strongly prefer Jalali, as it refers to a
> > spcific method of keeping dates regardless of the country it is used
> > in. For example, if
On Sun, 15 May 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > It is still "Amordad"; I was going to point it out here
> > to discuss, as I did not find about it in the archives. -Omid
>
> The answer is really simple: Have you ever seen "Amordad"
> printed *anywhere*? That's like using Pahlavi instead of
> Mo
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