At 5:47 AM -0700 5/9/01, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
[snip]
>I don't know the official MS story on Farsi support for XP and beyond, but I
>have to believe that the unavailability of Farsi's single most compelling
>market has to have a negative impact on priorities. Wouldn't you agree?
The seco
> #1. Commonly used symbols *must* be directly available on virtually all
> #Latin-script keyboards, not just by typing convoluted dead-key or
> #Alt-sequences.
> #
> We need more shift and shift lock keys so that more than ASCII
> can be done from a keyboard.
Well, OTOH I highly dislike when a
I agree with what Doug said. However, there is a point where I can nit pick!
Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> platform's character set support, and you have to backslash-escape one of the
> question marks in a literal string that contains "??" if you don't want any
> surprises.
Well, there is no choice he
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I really hope that all the problems of Microsoft Persian keyboard gets
> fixed in the shipping version of XP.
Well, good luck on this one. With Beta 2 out, its really unlikely that you
will see a change at this point in Windows, if it has not alrea
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> In Windows 2000 there was no built in method to enter Heh with Yeh
> above 06C0 in Persian texts. Now, thanks to Whistler, you can do that
> by pressing Shift+G.
I hope these problems get fixed AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. By fixing, I also
mean that U+06C0 s
From: "Charlie Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The PinYin IME with Windows 2000 allows
> you to input traditional caharacters.
And of course, this suggests the real answer here if you want full
multilingual support and you are on a platform that does not support this
(such as Windows ME) -- upgrade
This is probably better directed to Microsoft then to the Unicode List
(since its really not a Unicode issue but it is obviously a Microsoft one!)
but there are plenty of MS people who can take the ball and run with it.
For fonts, neither Times New Roman nor Tahoma is all that stellar for
Persian
Persian letter Kaf 06A9 (entered from Persian
keyboard in Word 2000 or Word XP under Windows 2000 or Whistler Beta 2 Build
2462) seems to be handled like a delimiter. If you try to select the whole word
KETA:B (see Attachment, Line 1) by double clicking, only last three letters
could be chec
The PinYin IME with Windows 2000 allows you to
input traditional caharacters.
Charlie
K International
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