RE: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-05-09 Thread Omid K. Rad
[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 ^^ Common? How about, acceptable or something like that? Well, right. How about this phrase: [3.2.3] There is

RE: FW: IranL10nInfo - First Week of The Year

2004-05-09 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: Ah, it's not Unicode that does that. It's the Common Locale Repoistory Project or something like that does that. Alright! I was just pointing to that method. Suitable for what? For specifying Iranian Persian requirements? No, Iranian Persian

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-05-09 Thread Omid K. Rad
licence. You're right, you can create commercial applications for these platforms as well. Later, :) behdad Omid On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Omid K. Rad wrote: Iran Localization Info for Microsoft .NET Hello every body, especially my friends at FarsiWeb, I'm trying to point out

RE: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-05-09 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I'm not sure how month calendar makes sense in English. What about writing in tabular representations? I checked it up. month calendar is a term used for the calendars with a month view. I found this in use even more than monthly calendar. About

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-05-09 Thread Omid K. Rad
I totally agree with you that the name Jalali keeps away all that confusion and debate around Farsi/Persian/Iranian and also Shamsi/Khorshidi. But as far as I'm advised, the Jalali Calendar refers to an era other than the Hejrie Shamsi which is in use today, and the calculations are not exactly

IranL10nInfo

2004-04-27 Thread Omid K. Rad
in persian: http://www.idevcenter.com/projects/iranl10ninfo/ Sincerely, Omid K. Rad ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

RE: Using Hijri Shamsi date in Outlook 2002

2004-04-27 Thread Omid K. Rad
for clarifications. Truly, Omid K. Rad -Original Message- From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 27, 2004 6:04 PM To: Omid K. Rad Cc: 'PersianComputing' Subject: Re: Using Hijri Shamsi date in Outlook 2002 Dear Mr Omid K. Rad, I read your article at: http://www.iranasp.net

FW: Re: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-05-01 Thread Omid K. Rad
Iran Localization Info for Microsoft .NET 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

FW: IranL10nInfo - First Week of The Year

2004-05-01 Thread Omid K. Rad
Hi, Im going to find the regulation that is used in Iran to determine the first week of the year. To decide on the first week of the year weve got three rules (don't tire out yourself with these, just read on): 1. FirstDay Indicates that the first week of the year starts on the first day of

Re: Days of the Week abbreviated

2004-05-02 Thread Omid K. Rad
Iran Localization Info for Microsoft .NET 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

RE: FW: IranL10nInfo - First Week of The Year

2004-05-03 Thread Omid K. Rad
Im 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!) Yes, I

Faraa-andishi

2004-05-04 Thread Omid K. Rad
Title: Message FYI: http://www.idevcenter.com/projects/iranl10ninfo/forum/?messageid=29#msg Omid ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-05-04 Thread Omid K. Rad
I was amazed when I got my Ukranian friend read www.ozodi.org texts. He was actually reading Persian!!! Omid --- Jon D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if you're already aware of this, but www.ozodi.org run by Radio Free Europe distributes these Tajik fonts:

RE: FW: IranL10nInfo - First Week of The Year

2004-05-05 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:00 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: I'll personally go for FirstFourDayWeek. (This is not a FarsiWeb recommendation and is not even based on any specific reason. It's just personal preference.) I'm with FirstFourDayWeek too, because it marks the week [as the first

RE: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-16 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Sun, 15 May 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: So we've reached a consensus on using Iranian Calendar for the term referring to the solar calendar in action in Tehran, right? So we forget about Jalali name, and call it Iranian Calendar, quite like Chinese, Japanese, and other countries. Iranian

RE: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-16 Thread Omid K. Rad
Title: Message On Sun, 16 May 2004, C Bobroff wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: The lunar Hijri calendar used in Iran is also an official calendar and is calculated independent from other Hijri calendars used in other islamic countries. It is an important calendar, since it

RE: IranL10nInfo

2004-05-18 Thread Omid K. Rad
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 Modern

RE: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-23 Thread Omid K. Rad
Hello, I am slow these days to answer, sorry for that; I'm getting over the exams now. I read the mailings for the last few days about the calendar. It's nice to see new and knowledgeable friends like Hooman Mehr and Ordak D. Coward taking part here. There were things new for me and mixed up a

RE: Iranian Calendar

2004-05-23 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: Hi Omid and Connie, MSDN way of specifying Hijri calendar is like saying the length of any month in Gregorian calendar is 30 days plus or minus two days -- true but not very useful. [...] Hi Hooman, The Hijri calendar introduced in MSDN does not

RE: LeapYears of Iranian Calendar

2004-05-23 Thread Omid K. Rad
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: I guess the best thing to do: - is get an archive of the last 50 years of official times of vernal equinox, or saal tahveel, and compute the length of year for each year. Fit them with linear or quadratic curves. Look at Birashk's method and

{Spam:6} Re: Jalaali?!

2005-02-12 Thread Omid K. Rad
I am forwarding MSFTs reply FYI From: Kit George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 8, 2005 1:52 AM To: Omid K. Rad Cc: Kathleen Carey; Matt Ayers Subject: RE: System.Globalization.JalaaliCalendar - Jalaali? Omid, thanks again for following up. Ill forward

Re: Jalaali?!

2005-02-11 Thread Omid K. Rad
. In the meantime you can make your own comments to MS through the email address at the bottom of the page linked above. Thanks, Omid K. Rad ___ PersianComputing mailing list PersianComputing@lists.sharif.edu http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo