RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-12-01 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Roozbeh, it is a long time and I don't remember your answer to this email. What happened to this new dll? AFAIK, it's not still put in the sourceforge. If you're interested, I can mail it to you off-list. - Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner:

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:08, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: I did this, and installed the new DLL on my system, and it works beatifully. It's the same keyboard layout, only Shift+Space inserts a ZWNJ instead of a space. I thought I would submit it to sourceforge so that everyone can use the new tool.

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-25 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8 BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard things and then pushes it so hard that Unicode adds it to parts of the standard (or an FAQ). Microsoft conventions for .txt files in the Unicode FAQ

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-25 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not work? Bug in Microsoft keyboard layout creation tool. Use Shift-B temporarily. Thanks. I've not done any work in this arena, so what I propose here might make no sense. Sorry if that's

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-25 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 17:43, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Well, maybe you're right, but I don't see how a text editor is supposed to know the encoding of a file without some kind of mark. Does Latin-1 (an old encoding of text files for Western Europe, also called ISO 8859-1) had a mark to distinguish

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:13, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: and Notepad is not an HTML editor What is notepad? A text editor? Text editors should not insert a UTF-8 BOM either. The problem is that Microsoft sometimes invents non-standard things and then pushes it so hard that Unicode adds it to parts of

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 01:48, C Bobroff wrote: Roozbeh, is it not time to remove the experimental from its name? No. This has not become a national standard yet. When it becomes a national standard (and possibly changing a little at the time), we'll remove experimental from the name. roozbeh

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-24 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:07, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: You can re-live its creation here in the archives: http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/0 00538.html [snip] Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-20 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
You can re-live its creation here in the archives: http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/0 00538.html [snip] Thanks for the links. Seems like a very handy keyboard. BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not work? Done! Beautiful! I hope the Mozilla users

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-20 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: BTW, why the Shift-Space combination does not work? Because the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx thought the space bar is reserved for only spacing characters. Roozbeh said he sent MS a list of such

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-19 Thread C Bobroff
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Interesting. Sorry for my ignorance, but is that keyboard available publicly? You can re-live its creation here in the archives: http://lists.sharif.edu/pipermail/persiancomputing/2003-June/000538.html And you can download it here:

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
An important note: what Notepad does here is only acceptable. It's not even recommended. HTML 4 clearly doesn't allow a UTF-8 BOM appear before the HTML tag. Notepad is supposed to be a text editor. A text editor shouldn't insert markup by itself. BTW, ISIRI 6219 strongly discourages the use

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-18 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
First of all, thank you very much for all the patient and lengthy explanations. Very nice of you to share so many tips! (Thanks to the others too who answered on and off list!) Happy to help! [snip] Now that 2 people have said to change ZWNJ to \u200c, I tried that but it didn't work. I

RE: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-17 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:44, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Those are the BOM marks for UTF-8. Notepad injects them under your nose, and that's one of the reasons I avoid Notepad. Frontpage text editor does not have that problem. A small note: what Notepad does here is *correct*, because it can

Re: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-17 Thread Behnam
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? -Connie

Re: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 16 May 2004, C Bobroff wrote: 2. When viewed on WinXP/Mozilla1.7a, the ZWNJ's completely throw off my mouseover javascript program. It can not find words with ZWNJ. And look what happens if you mouseover the Tajik eqivalent: it displays the Persian word ok but no ZWNJ. This problem

Re: Miscellaneous web issues

2004-05-17 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 16 May 2004, C Bobroff wrote: 1. When viewed on WinXP/IE6, look what happens when you mouseover the Persian words at the end (i.e. left margin) of each line. You also pick up the space to the right of the first word in that line. Similarly, if you attempt to mouseover the first word