RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-14 Thread C Bobroff
> No, no Nastaliq font. It's not the default for Persian anymore. People > have a hard time reading Nastaliq for anything longer than a few words. OK, bye-bye Nastaliq for Persian. But I mean Persian Naskh or Naskhi as opposed to Arabic Naskh. I wish there were a precise term to differentiate the

RE: [PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-14 Thread Linguasoft
>>Remember that accents are different from "HARAKAT"s.<< We only discussed combining symbols (hamza & madda), not short vowels. Peter ___ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb

Re: [PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote: > > > For comparison, European keyboards or the US-International keyboard also > > do not include standalone versions of all accents, and use many keys > > (accent keys and others) with a "deadkey" function to g

Re: [PersianComputing] RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-14 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, C Bobroff wrote: > For whatever they're worth, they're here as PDF files: > > http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html That only mentions there is only one Kurdish letter not already in Persian. But we know a lot of accent marks are used, while the above reference only me

RE: [farsiweb] New keyboard layout for Windows

2003-06-14 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Linguasoft wrote: > The question remains why you provide direct keyboard input for > "combining" hamza & madda. Are there any letter combinations other than > with alef/ya/waw that can be created via combination? Yes. Heh. > (I've seen accents added in handwriting for Pashto