Re: Days of the Week abbreviated
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 19:38, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > the *correct* way is to order from right to left. I confirm. The screenshot I sent was just for making people see something. The preferred direction is right to left and then top to bottom. roozbeh ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: FW: IranL10nInfo - First Week of The Year
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 04:31, Omid K. Rad wrote: > Iâm going to find the regulation that is used in Iran to determine the first week > of the year. There is no regulation or practice for that, as far as I know. I'd love to be proved incorrect. (Well, actually the first week of the year doesn't start until Farvardin 14 here in Iran!) > To decide on the first week of the year weâve got three rules (don't tire out > yourself with these, just read on): > [...] Are those the only ones .NET allows? The POSIX standards allow four more. The general idea is identifying a certain day of the week that its occurence marks a first week of the year. Considering Saturday as the first day of the week, your FirstDay is equivalent to POSIX's "Friday", your FirstFourDayWeek is equivalent to "Tuesday", and your "FirstFullWeek" is equivalent to "Saturday". roozbeh ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Days of the Week abbreviated
<> After Behdad's justifications and concluding the survey about this discussion, I changed the section [3.2.3] of the draft as follows: [3.2.3] There is no abbreviated form for the weekday names in Persian. However, it is common to use the first letter of weekdays in the month calendars as shown below. ØØØ Ú Ù Ú Ø Ø Û Ø Û Û Û Û Û Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Û Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ Changes are online: http://www.idevcenter.com/projects/iranl10ninfo/draft/#3.2.3 Omid ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Days of the Week abbreviated
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Omid K. Rad wrote: > [3.2.3] > There is no abbreviated form for the weekday names in Persian. However, it > is common to use the first letter of weekdays in the month calendars as ^^ Common? How about, "acceptable" or something like that? -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Days of the Week abbreviated
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 19:38, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > the *correct* way is to order from right to left. > > I confirm. The screenshot I sent was just for making people see > something. The preferred direction is right to left and then top to > bottom. Now that you mentioned that, I elaborate. I didn't want to raise it here ;). [The message has an attached image, if it does not get through, you can find it here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~behdad/cal.jpg (20kb)] The current layout we are used to is "top to bottom, then right to left". It means, rows are arranged top to bottom, then in each row, cells are arranged from right to left. This one turns out something like the first one in the attached image. But I remember seeing wall calendars with direction "right to left, then top to bottom". This is the second layout in the attached shot. And the third one in the screenshot attached is the first layout, but instead of single letter day of week names, I have used something more intuitive, but apparently it's quite a failure and should never be used. > roozbeh Later, --behdad behdad.org<>___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Abbreviations et al.
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > Nice examples of abbreviations/shorthands/whatever: > > * The first page of Mosahab Persian Encyclopedia (first published in > 1345/1966), about the abbreviations used in the encyclopedia, showing > different methods of Persian abbreviation (127 KiB): > > http://www.farsiweb.info/misc/mosahab-abbr.png Nice construction, but none of them are actually used these days, except for: ALEF LAM KHEH: widely used. BEH MEEM: For AD, is not used, but a single MEEM is used instead. It's context sensitive so, the same thing means "translator" in other contexts. SAD: widely used as "(SAD)". SAD ZWJ: For Page, is widely used, but as an isolated SAD. EIN: widely used as "(EIN)". EIN JIM: used for a different meaning. HEH SHEEN, HEH GHAF: used widely. So, the others are usual dictionary constructions. The same thing happens in English too. But it's unfortunate that we still don't have any abbreviations in use for units in Physics :(. BTW, the construction techniques are intelligent in their own limited way. --behdad behdad.org ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
