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

2004-01-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:16, Behnam wrote: Sorry, I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. [...] No problem. It just made me wonder that you're referring to something else. I checked it, and I hadn't said that. I'm not that much into commercial value of software... roozbeh

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

2004-01-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 23:43, Ali A. Khanban wrote: Mirrored is even better. It is more similar to the way I usually separate them in handwriting. Put the pen on a paper and then move it to the top and left, a natural number separator! I move

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

2004-01-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Behnam wrote: 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

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

2004-01-11 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
BTW, what would the use of Reh instead of proper chars like U+066C or U+066B do to sort orders or parsing of numeric vs. alphabetic sequences? For example, a function persian_ispunct() la ANSI C ispunct() would then have to include Reh as a possible punctuation character. On Sun, 2004-01-11 at

Re: persian font Footnote

2004-01-11 Thread C Bobroff
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Payam Poursaied wrote: would someone please help me to create persian font footnote? [MS word] in the body of text, it is displayed by persian digits, but in the footnote section it appears in latin digits Payam, This is a bug but I can think of two solutions for now. If

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

2004-01-11 Thread C Bobroff
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Other people like Connie are sacrificing their life to get our comments and translate it into pages that the other 90% can understand. Speaking of which, I'm just today attempting to make a Persian keyboard for fingers which are used to typing

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

2004-01-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:02, C Bobroff wrote: Anyhow, I need some help. I'm just cheating by using Farsiweb's Persian experimental standard keyboard and rearranging things. Please tell me why you have included the following. Are they used for Persian? U+0060 Grave Accent U+003b Western

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

2004-01-11 Thread C Bobroff
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: We did that because we wanted to allow all the ASCII printable characters. The real need was for things like XML, where some of these characters are part of the syntax. The user will want to enter Persian XML without ever switching to a Latin

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

2004-01-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:20, C Bobroff wrote: Glad I asked before deleting! I don't know about these things. Put them in if you have the space. They'll prove to be necessary. It's not XML only. It's everything that is considered *rich text*, a text file that is supposed to mean more than the

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

2004-01-11 Thread C Bobroff
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: Put them in if you have the space. They'll prove to be necessary. It's not XML only. It's everything that is considered *rich text*, a text file that is supposed to mean more than the exact text. HTML, XML, TeX, ... Sure, I'll put them. I wish

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

2004-01-11 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:31, C Bobroff wrote: I wish there was a way to put 2-3 characters on a single keystroke with this tool. How have they managed that with Rial on the normal keyboards? There is. Just input multiple characters in the box that asks you for the character. roozbeh

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

2004-01-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, C Bobroff wrote: ok! Thank you for your blessing. It is indeed a shame to allow keys to go unused. Don't be hasty. Leave some unused for later when we encode new characters ;). behdad -Connie ___ PersianComputing mailing list