On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> This is what the page numbers look like:
>
> ..."???", "?", "?", "?", "?"
> ("Alif", "B", "T", "Th", "J"...)
You are missing the "Peh" between "Beh" and "Teh".
> I guess that the name of the letter "?" ("alif") is spelled out in full to
> avoid confusion with page "?" (digit "1").
Yes. One rarely sees an Alef in isolation. It's almost always spelled out.
> I notice that also letters "?", "?", "?" ("miim", "ha", and "`ayn") look
> similar, respectively, to digits ?" ("2", "5" and "4"). Are these letters
> spelled out in full as well?
Meem is not that similar to 2, the round head and the smooth curve
distinguishes it from 2. Heh is distinguished from 5 by using its initial
form when it's being used alone (actually, the most frequent use of ZWJ is
Persian is just after a single Heh). Ain is again not that much similar to
4, since we use a different shape of 4 (U+06F4).
BTW, question marks were yours. Your email was tagged as ISO-8859-1. Of
course your email could be understood completely because of the additional
comments.
roozbeh
