Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread C Bobroff
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > No. That is simply a bug. People started to forget Persian > numerals just after microsoft did this. To back my opinion just > note that in the old Dos era everyone used Persian numerals. And > the simple reason that MS did this bug *intentionally*

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:56, C Bobroff wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > > > That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. > > > > I think it's supposed to be a feature. [...] > > I know. That's the reason I used the

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread C Bobroff
> Well, almost nobody can read even the text of their (the Calligrapher > Association's) arm... ;) Likely a feature, not a bug. -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 19:56, C Bobroff wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. > > I think it's supposed to be a feature. [...] I know. That's the reason I used the term "misfeature" instead of "bug" or something. > Persian

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread C Bobroff
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Thomas Speck wrote: > > When I start Word 2003, and change the language to farsi, i can type in > > farsi, but the numerals appear in western typeset. > > That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. I think it's

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
> Someone also recently mentioned the following method which I haven't tried > so I can't say if it works. It may change all your numbers to Persian in > a more permanent fashion. Maybe someone else here can comment: > > 1. Control panel > > 2. Regional and language options > > 3. `Select an it

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Speck
Thomas Speck schrieb: Hello all I am trying to enable a colleague (he is persian, but somewhat older and not that good with his computer) to write texts in farsi on his computer. I have installed the multilanguage version of Windows XP, the arabic MUI and put farsi into the "Eingabegebietssche

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread C Bobroff
Thomas, When you're in Word, just go Tools > Options > Complex Scripts > Context "Context" means it will see that you're typing Persian and change the numbers accordingly to Persian. There's a bug with page numbers if you want to read about it: http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/nu

Re: Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:36, Thomas Speck wrote: > When I start Word 2003, and change the language to farsi, i can type in > farsi, but the numerals appear in western typeset. That's a misfeature in MS Windows keyboard layouts. You can use our experimental layout described at: http://lis

Writing Farsi with a german Word

2004-01-07 Thread Thomas Speck
Hello all I am trying to enable a colleague (he is persian, but somewhat older and not that good with his computer) to write texts in farsi on his computer. I have installed the multilanguage version of Windows XP, the arabic MUI and put farsi into the "Eingabegebietsschemaleiste" (i am at a lo