Re: Personal names survey
>> I have a theory. I think if the surname sounds better as a possessive >> (of or belonging to a place, tribe, etc) we tend to pronounce a kasra, >> and if a surname is a profession or reputation we tend not to. >> >> You would say Omar Khayyam and also say Hafez-e Shirazi. > > Hafez-e Shirazi here is not a person's first and last name. > Doesn't count. But I'm trying to get my rules writter too. Ok, I'll use your example: Sayyed Ali-e Khaameneh'i ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Sorting Problem with Pashto
It appears that every piece of email on this thread has been bouncing back and force a couple of times already. Is there a problem with the listserv? Some element is reflecting the same message back. Lets hope it doesn't happen to this one. > I am working on a Dictionary project for Pashto language. Was trying to enter > "English into Pashto" dictionary into Microsoft Access and while sorting the > "Pashto" column on ascending order, I came to across a bug (thats what i'll call > it). > > The image below is a screen short of Access Database sorted on the right column > which is Pashto Meaning of the English word on the left side. As you can see that in > Pashto the letter TTeh (Teh with circle) comes after Teh and before wow Ù but in > this list TTeh, TZEEM, and TSEH comes after wow Ù which comes at the end almost. > > Could anyone tell me whats the problem here and how can we fix it ? > > Thank you > Said Marjan Zazai, > Afghan Tech. > Kabul, Afghanistan. ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Dictionaries on the web
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > >> Honestly, license agreements are not applicable in Iran (and many other >> countries). License Agreements may be important if you live in US and >> some other countries, but don't have a case in Iran. In Iran, you only >> have the copyright law. > > And of course the contract law. To be precise, the Islamic > contract law ;). Perhaps we should raise some funds to pay a > lawyer to resolve this issue... > > behdad > >> roozbeh This has been an interesting thread. I have a story that relates to this. My youngest sister is turning into an accomplished painter. On a recent visit to Iran, I brought back some of her works. I asked her to sign them. She signed the back of the frame, rather than -- as she put it -- deface the painting with her signature. She felt that she was only the conduit for the creativity and not the source and so couldn't take credit for the work. Her thinking is probably influenced partly by modesty and partly by religion. I don't know anything about the laws in Iran, but I would imagine that this attitude probably permeates throughout the Intellectual Property law. Obviously this isn't good for the traditional software business model (licensing binaries, and hiding the code), but I am not sure that the Open Source business model wouldn't also be hurt by it. ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
RE: Persian PC-Kimmo 0.8 released
> I was wonderring if there's some way to retrieve the tree-structured data in > a format which is easy to parse (the ASCII style is too difficult for a > computer program to parse), something like an XML format maybe? Rivest (of RSA fame) came up with an S-expression solution that is much more compact and the code for handling it is much smaller than an XML solution. It might fit this problem better than XML. I've included the links to Rivest's sources as well as another project on Source Forge. http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/sexp.txt http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/sexp.html http://sexpr.sourceforge.net/ ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: WEFT webpage font embedding--Call for feedback
>> But take a look at http://www.browsercam.com , > > Unfortunately, it really was not too helpful. No chance to test Win98 > with IE6 for example. Hi Connie, I have an unsolicited suggestion (I know you really don't want to hear from eye-rain-ians â). I routinely need to compile and test software for a number of different OSes for x86/PC platform. What I've found useful -- especially for testing -- is VMWare. It allows me to test all Windows variants as well as FreeBSD and Linux. There is a 30 day free trial period that should give you a pretty good idea. I believe they have an academic discount program. Have you tried it? -Fariborz P.S. Mac OS X users can use VirutalPC for PC virtual machine on a Mac. ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
Re: Personal names survey
> They are hard because they have really "never" seen anyone puts Kasre in > personal names. Neither do I. It "is" sometimes pronounced but almost > never written. I have a theory. I think if the surname sounds better as a possessive (of or belonging to a place, tribe, etc) we tend to pronounce a kasra, and if a surname is a profession or reputation we tend not to. You would say Omar Khayyam and also say Hafez-e Shirazi. ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
