On 29/07/2003 10:20, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:06, Patrick Andries wrote:
UTR 20, table 4.1 writes that ZWNJ and ZWJ are needed for « a.o. Persian ».
What does the abbreviation « a.o. » mean ? Arabic O..?
I have no clue about that, but ...
Is this current Farsi or some historical Persian ?
ZWNJ and ZWJ are required for encoding modern Persian, which is the
language Iranians officially call "فارسی" [fa:rsi:] and the Afghans call
"دری" [dæri:], and is written in the Arabic script.
roozbeh
Out of interest... I am aware that ZWNJ is needed between root words and
certain suffixes e.g. the plural suffix. But is ZWJ actually required
within text, or only for display of joining forms in isolation? A simple
example would be of interest.
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