On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, FK wrote: > All these problems with the Arabic script makes me a believer in > changing our alphabet to a Latin-based one and getting rid of all these > unnecessary headaches :-)
The whole point is: all other languages have similiar problems, including those written in Latin. The main difference, is usually that there is not enough market for Persian abilities in software. Just some examples: Swedish sorts 'v' and 'w' as one letter. Turkish and Azeri have different capitalization rules than the other languages, since they have two different 'i's. Slovak treats 'ch' as a single letter sorted between 'c' and 'd'. Hungarian sorts 'czz' as it were 'czcz'. French needs a ligated 'oe' letter, which does not even exist in ISO-8859-1, ... IMHO, the Latin script will not solve the problems, it just adds another complexity dimension. roozbeh _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
