Re: viewing farsi font in console

that uses FriBidi and some of Behdad's Farsi Console. 1-http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=BiCon 2-http://www.arabeyes.org/ 3-http://www.fribidi.org/ -- ' ' Behnam Esfahbod ' * .. http://behnam.esfahbod.info * ` *

Re: MySQL 4.0, FULL-TEXT Indexing and Search Arabic Data, Unicode

s now. -- ' ' Behnam Esfahbod ' * .. http://zwnj.org * ` * http://zwnj.info * o * http://behnam.esfahbod.info ___ PersianComputing mailing list PersianComputing@lists.sharif.edu http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Tray Layout Problem

n I try to open the option window, the window appears in the task bar but the option window won't be on the screen. is there anybody face this problem or something similar? any suggestion? I wrote to programmer and Mehrsoft but both of the emails bounced. Thanks In A

Allah ligature

Hi, I'm using a contextual alternative glyph for medial lam for Allah in my fonts. There is no ligature involved. All letters and vowels should be typed. Let me know what you think. Cheers, Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing

Re: Persian mathematical notation and MathML

Hi, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208309 This is the bug report on Mozilla's bugzilla, started about 2 years ago. It's about the right-to-left scripts in basic math formulas. Cheers, -Behnam Dan Brickley wrote: > > Hi. I'm forwarding this on behalf of

Re: Persian mathematical notation and MathML

Hi, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208309 This is the bug report on mozilla's bugzilla, started about 2 years ago. It's about the right-to-left scripts in basic math formulas. Cheers, -Behnam Dan Brickley wrote: > > Hi. I'm forwarding this on behalf of

Two new fonts from SIL

Hi, SIL International has recently released two new fonts, Scheherazade and Lateef, both in two versions of AAT (for Macintosh) and OT (for the rest). They are quite good. Check them out at: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? site_id=nrsi&item_id=ArabicFonts Cheers, Be

Re: Computer English - Farsi Dic

) or - maybe a simpler solution - do not use Safari as browser. FireFox should be able to handle those fonts properly. Behnam On 22-Jul-05, at 3:26 PM, Rene Piard wrote: I'm not sure if you can help we have a mac os X and cannot read the bbc font in Persian do you now what we should do? th

BidiAssist - 0.92 - beta

ist-0.92.plugin.gtk-2.6.tar.bz2 Feedbacks please, -behnam Behnam Esfahbod wrote: Hi list, Here are Bidirectional Assistant, a plugin for gedit helps users to manage their bidirectional texts (plain-texts) easier. Features: - Paragraph Direction * Left to Right * Right to Left * Clear - Em

BidiAssist - 0.91 - beta

1-2 (GNOME >= 2.10). Don't forget to enable the plugin from Edit > Preferences > Plugins! ;) Feedbacks are welcomed, bye. -- ' ' Behnam Esfahbod ' * .. http://zwnj.org * ` * http://zwnj.info * o

farsiweb.info

Hi friends, The FarsiWeb Project's website <http://farsiweb.info/> is now up-to-date with a new Wiki system. Regards, -Behnam PS. Feel free to send in a comment or suggestion about design, content, etc. to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- ' ' Behnam Esfahbod

Persian Calendar

Archive page of Shargh newspaper website has a good Persian calendar. Here is the link: http://sharghnewspaper.com/archive.htm -- ' ' Behnam Esfahbod ' * .. * ` * http://behnam.esfahbod.info/ * o * ___ PersianCo

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Farsi in Max OS X]]

for rtl scripts. But I like to hear about the experience of other Mac users. Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: Personal names survey

you are looking for rules, maybe this is one of criteria to be considered. (I couldn't find a better expression for it!) Behnam On 14-Jun-04, at 9:13 PM, C Bobroff wrote: The "streets" stuff was a joke and I'm afraid I led Ordak on--no pun intended-- a wild-goose chase, (sorry!

Re: Personal names survey

first name and last name. So when it comes to rules of pronunciation, it shouldn't be surprising that in each corner of the country, people improvised based on their traditional heritage. But I still think that Ordak made the best effort to come with some rules. Behnam On 13-Jun-04, at 5

Re: Mirroring in Unicode

ds. Am I on the right track? Behnam On 12-Jun-04, at 10:54 AM, Hooman Mehr wrote: Hi, I checked it and can confirm that Apple's ISIRI 2901 keyboard has a bug in this regard. The Persian opening parenthesis in ISIRI 2901 is located on shit-0 and closing parenthesis on shift-9, but Apple's

Re: Mirroring in Unicode

oduces the intended one because as I said it is mapped in the opposite way. My other fonts behave similarly which, I suppose, is good news! Behnam P/S I'm very interested to present this discussion to Apple developer and I'm working on it.

Re: Mirroring in Unicode

solution for handling of mirroring characters, there has to be an effort to remove this useless mirroring effect in Unicode altogether. I know of some Jewish foes that are not too happy about this either! Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL

Iranian Experimental Keyboard Layout for X-window

E. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // A copy of the GNU General Public License is available from // <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt>. // // Author: Behnam Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // // 3-Level layout partial default alphanumeric_keys xkb_sym

Iranian Experimental Keyboard Layout for X-window

ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // A copy of the GNU General Public License is available from // <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt>. // // Author: Behnam Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // // 3-Level layout partial defau

Re: Persian-English Dictionary -- Was: Iranian Mac User group

too complicated to master. Behnam On 7-Jun-04, at 12:38 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 18:55, C Bobroff wrote: Who said they didn't break it up into smaller files? And managed all the numbering and sorting and all t

Re: Mac info for Persian

On 21-May-04, at 8:15 PM, C Bobroff wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Behnam wrote: You asked my "expert" opinion, you got it! brace yourself, this is a very long one! Thank you, Behnam! You have put A LOT of time into your responses. I'm going to edit that and keep it handy so I can mak

Re: Mac info for Persian

ort? Other useful links? I don't know of any support group exclusively for Web viewing (hey, how many people do you think we are?!) For useful links (outside of Apple.com) Iranian Mac User Group is a very good source. Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: Mac info for Persian

On 19-May-04, at 7:21 PM, C Bobroff wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2004, Behnam wrote: I don't see its use in Perso-Arabic script. I meant both Latin input and output here. The punishment for misunderstanding the question is that you have to answer some Mac questions! (New form of flaming, hope you li

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

ou don't have it on your keyboard, you may be able to use this information to type it with other tools or utilities. Or you can drop the "Al-" altogether. If I remember correctly, his street name in Iran was "Biruni" short and simple! Behnam ___

Re: Iranian Calendar (P.S.)

I don't see its use in Perso-Arabic script. B. On 19-May-04, at 5:38 PM, C Bobroff wrote: U+2011 should definitely be part of the custom Perso-Arabic transliteration keyboards. (Hint to Peter) ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lis

Re: Miscellaneous web issues

On 16-May-04, at 9:16 PM, C Bobroff wrote: 6. I embedded the fonts again. Looks beautiful on WInXP/IE6 and limited others. I presume it looks terrible on the rest. Still thinking about what to do about that. Behnam, how's the Tajik looking on your Mac? -C

Re: WEFT webpage font embedding--Call for feedback

including Hamza above Alef in ØØØ and ÚØØ and dot below H and Z. Behnam But take a look at http://www.browsercam.com , which provides good services for web page testing on mutiliple platforms and different browsers. Hope this helps :-) Please inform us about the result. Thanks, Behzad - O

Localization Guide in Mozilla International Month

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Re: Announcement: BiCon 0.0.20040401 released

Behdad Esfahbod wrote: ... In the Linux console, you can switch between English and Arabic/Persian keyboard by pressing Alt+Shift on the right half of your keyboard. Oops. I think you mean LEFT half. ... -beee ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAI

GNOME Language and Culture capplet

Good news from GNOME 2.8: GNOME Language and Culture capplet (aka gnome-localization-preferences) ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancompu

Kashideh

particular characters with which it shouldn't be inserted) It doesn't seem to me that there is any such rules but I'd appreciate any information in this regard. Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sha

Re: Salaam (Q. reg. Persian Fonts)

Hi. You can use as they are full unicode-compatible and have more glyphs than bornas. Regards, --Behanm.Esfahbod The FarsiWeb Project N. Silakhori wrote: Hi Siamak, Try this one: http://www.bornaray.com/en_fonts.asp?fn=per_fonts&rfn=en_fonts&pa

An Effort to Make Arabic Easier

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Re: Nested RTL Lists in Mozilla

Oops! On CSS3, list-style-type value can be: arabic-indic: for ARABIC-INDIC DIGITs farsi, urdu: for EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGITs Regards, /Beee Behnam Esfahbod wrote: As I looked at "CSS3 module: Lists" (W3C Working Draft 7 November 2002) there will be an "arabic-indic" for

Re: Nested RTL Lists in Mozilla

As I looked at "CSS3 module: Lists" (W3C Working Draft 7 November 2002) there will be an "arabic-indic" for changing the numeric system. ;) /Beee <http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-lists-20021107/#list-style-type> C Bobroff wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Behnam Esfahb

Re: English-Persian dictionary on your site

u don't. If we want to talk about such issues, let's talk in terms of values and not in terms of law. Non of us is lawyer in here anyway. Behnam On 6-Mar-04, at 6:00 AM, Linguasoft wrote: "Professional modification" (editing/improvement/adaptation) of entries from o

Nested RTL Lists in Mozilla

Hello Mozilla lovers. In new mozilla release (1.7a), the bug for alignment of nested right-to-left lists has fixed. Now all type of lists (ol|ul) work properly in RtL direction. Test Page: <http://bamdad.org/~behnam/test/list.fa.html> Cheers, /

Re: AR-EN Morphoanalytical Dictionary

its singularity- too visible and shouldn't be targeted for such issues. Behnam On 2-Mar-04, at 11:53 AM, C Bobroff wrote: By the way, who ARE the Aryanpour brothers? We see their data in online dictionaries all over the place. Do they not know or care? Of course, the printed versions keep

PersoArabic font challenge

http://www.tradigital.de/specials/studies/iuc20b.pdf Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Farsi fonts for Macintosh

Attention Mac users, There is now a set of Persian Unicode fonts optimized for Panther available at: http://www.redlers.com/downloadfont.html They are not OpenType so they won't run on PC but they can be installed on PC and might work with some applications supporting Unicode. B

Re: Nasta'aligh font

OTF (which apparently is Apple's own old font technology) But most likely I'll be able to run the font on OS 9. I'll give it a try and I let you know. (it won't help me though!) Behnam On 27-Jan-04, at 5:02 AM, Linguasoft wrote: Dear Behnam, I haven't experienced any of

Re: Nasta'aligh font

On 26-Jan-04, at 9:02 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: Behnam wrote: Thanks Peter, It's more OTF than Unicode. The only glyphs in that font that have Unicode "code" are the main alphabet. So it can't possibly work on a word processor with Unicode support because non o

Re: Nasta'aligh font

parently OTF side of it make it work on PCs. It's easy to make it Unicode compliant though (at least for Persian), but I asked permission (when that site existed) and I didn't get any response. Behnam On 26-Jan-04, at 6:10 AM, Linguasoft wrote: Dear Behnam, The font in question is Uni

Nasta'aligh font

d a chance to take a closer look at this font {kidding!} what's your take on it? From what I could see, it doesn't seem to be mapped properly according Unicode standard. I hope you know what I'm talking about because that site apparently is not there anymore. Behnam On 25-Jan

Re: Make Persian PDF using PHP

Naqashzade, Sadeq wrote: > Salaam, Hi. > Any one know any package that able me to create PDF in Persian on fly using > PHP? I want to able embed Persian fonts into my pdfs documents. http://www.fpdf.org/ Just google:php pdf creator site:dmoz.org ;) /beee __

Re: Farsi in SQL Server 2000 and web pages

ÙØÙ ØØÛØÙØÛ ÙÙØÙÙ ÙØÛØÙ ØØ ØØÛ ØÙØÙØØ ØÙØ ÙØØØ . ÙÚØÙÙ ØÛÚØ ØÛÙÚÙ ÚÙØÙÚÙ ØØ ÙØÚÙÙ ÂÙÚØØÙâØÛØ ØØ ÙØØÙÙÙ ØÙØ ØØØÙØØÙ ØØÙ ØÛÙ ØÙØÙØ ØØ ÙØÙØØ ÙÛØÙØ ÚÙ ØÙÛÙÙ ÙØÙ Ù ÙØØØÚØØÙ ØØ ÙÙØÙØÛ ØÙØ ØØØÙÙ ÙÛØØ ÚÙØ. ØÙÙØÙ ÛØ ØÛÙØÙ Let me know how you received my message Behnam On 21-Jan-04

Re: Persian Keyboard Layout

e won't look at the keyboard anyway. Persian Trans. has an easier "kick start" but when it comes to mastering Farsi typing, the effort and practice time isn't any shorter. We all should go through the pain of mastering a keyboard layout. Why not choosing the standard one which i

Re: A piece of history

Thanks Roozbeh, I'm convinced! Behnam On 13-Jan-04, at 7:03 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:52, Behnam wrote: Yes I mixed up something there but I don't recall putting "Persian Computing Computing" as sender. Don't know what's the problem th

Re: [PersianComputing] Persian Safari for mac os X

ering Farsi web pages? This question is for both Standard Safari and your Safari. Keep up the good work, Behnam On 13-Jan-04, at 5:44 PM, Ali Samadi Ahadi wrote: Hi all, I'm translating safari and other apps for os X to Farsi maybe you would like to to have a look on it! greeti

Re: A piece of history

Peter, Maybe you can't use the keyboard programs on Panther (Macintosh) but I may be able to send you the screenshot of those keyboard layouts. If it helps, let me know which one you want. Behnam On 12-Jan-04, at 5:24 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 21:19, Linguasoft

Re: Using of U+066C as a number-separator

On 11-Jan-04, at 10:40 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:06, Behnam wrote: of improving Farsi computing. ^ Persian? Please? roozbeh Now, I like you to have the same "pushing" approach towards the technicality of Persian computing requirement

Re: Using of U+066C as a number-separator

em how to do it, instead of adjusting ourselves with their limitations. For the other technical reasons that Roozbeh mentioned, same approach is possible. As long as we know what is the problem, there is always a way to solve it instead of adjusting to the

Re: Using of U+066C as a number-separator

preted, by all means I retract my comment. The point I was making didn't need to involve you and it was just a careless formulation of the idea on my part. Behnam On 11-Jan-04, at 9:20 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 17:35, Behnam wrote: Roozbeh in an interview mentioned

Re: Using of U+066C as a number-separator

on, far from it. But I merely mentioned a fact of life in Iran, and considering this reality, things are not improving as fast as they should. Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: [persiancomputing]Separating persian numbers with comma is incorrect

f Persian Reh for thousands separator in ANY font will result in ugly surprises! Behnam On 5-Jan-04, at 2:17 PM, AmirBehzad Eslami wrote: e-Greetings,   I sawhttp://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/format.htm, But a note:   As described in the book "Nogh-teh GozAri" (The offi

Re: PersoArabic tables for XP fonts

Thanks Roozbeh, You have NO IDEA how much you helped me!! Behnam On 3-Jan-04, at 1:32 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: There are a few tools for that. One is TTX at <http://fonttools.sf.net>. There are also a few MS executables at <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.htm&g

Fwd: PersoArabic tables for XP fonts

From: Behnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 3, 2004 1:15:02 PM EST To: Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PersoArabic tables for XP fonts Thanks again Roozbeh, I tried once to join that group and for some reason I couldn't. I try it again. Now I'm get

Re: PersoArabic tables for XP fonts

sn't. Is it possible? or am I completely off track? Behnam On 3-Jan-04, at 11:30 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 03:01, Behnam wrote: Hi everybody, Is anybody can give me an instruction, sort of "how to for Dummies", to insert, install or whatever, the tables that ar

PersoArabic tables for XP fonts

tform so I can live with an instruction on PC. But don't forget: for Dummies!! Behnam ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: Nastaligh Options

On 2-Jan-04, at 7:14 AM, Linguasoft wrote: [Behnam:] >>... reduces the speed of reading. It's not true with Pakistani Nastaligh.<< Oh, really? Try reading (or shall I say deciphering?) one of those *handwritten* Urdu newspapers which are frequently genuine masterpiec

Re: Nastaligh Options

g it in Open Type (I wouldn't know) I really like to add Pakistani Nast'aaligh to my arsenal but to me the similarity of Pakistani and Persian Nast'aaligh is minimal and I'm not sure I'd like it to be for the main text of Farsi either. But this is a matter of taste and

Re: Nastaligh Options

's actually the difficulty of creating it. In other word, it may be difficult to read only if it's not the real thing. Regards, Behnam On 1-Jan-04, at 6:03 AM, Linguasoft wrote: Dear Neema, Behnam, and Connie: Besides the free Urdu Unicode Nastaliq font for Windows from www.crulp.o

Re: Nastaligh Options

h is another story and subject to my full report in the future. Behnam On 30-Dec-03, at 10:13 PM, Neema Agha wrote: Greetings, I am a Mac OS X user and am looking for nastaligh font options. From what I have seen, there are many applications that allow for nastaligh writing. I am looking for

Re: [PersianComputing] Persian or Farsi?

> http://www.persian-language.org/Group/Article.asp?ID=173 > > Everybody, please, please, please, use the word "Persian" when refering > to the name of our language in English. > > roozbeh > -- Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ] _

Re: [PersianComputing] [offtopic] Arax 0.1 released under GPL

Moaser publications) is more better. ;) -- Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ] ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

[PersianComputing] Re: [farsi] Re: SOLVED: Button translation

, it's right about *buttons*. But we should translate "Print..." in "File" menu as infinitive, "chaap" or "chaap-kardan", IMPO. -- Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ] ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

[PersianComputing] Persian Standard Keyboard Layout keymap for Vim

Space doesn't work; you should use Shift-B for ZWNJ. Newbie Instruction: - Copy these two files to /usr/share/vim/vim6x/keymap/ - Use :set keymap=persian in Vim command mode, or append it to ~/.vimrc Have fun... -- Behnam Esfahbod [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Amir Hedayaty [ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PersianComputing] Persian Keyboard Layout Preview

It's [U+0649]. Its ISOLATED and FINAL forms are like [U+06CC], so we show it in the layout as INITIAL form. > And forgive my ignorance but when do you use subscript alif? I've only > used it in Pakistani contexts. As Roozbeh said, some characters only use in Koranic texts. --

[PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

se 3 character in the new layout, but my opinion is that we don't; because they SHOULD NOT use in persian texts, and we have other local shapes for these characters. -- Behnam Esfahbod ..[ http://esfahbod.info | behnam(a)esfahbod.info ] ___

[PersianComputing] Re: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

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)esfa