Re: viewing farsi font in console

2005-12-11 Thread Medi Montaseri
I remeber being able to do this on Unix/Linux long time ago...as far back as 1990sback then on SCO, AT&T SVR4 x86 (386 PCs) and then Linux... See manpages on setfont(8) unicode_start(1) unicode_stop(1) loadunimap(8) And google for "hebrew console"...that community was on top of this issue an

Re: Bad Farsi Fonts or something

2005-12-03 Thread Medi Montaseri
selection.. I'm home now, I'll report on Mondaythe mis-behaving box is at work...I guess that's what one gets when corporate IT guys insists on provisioning computers and such... MehdiOn 12/3/05, Hedayat Vatankhah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Medi Montaseri <

Re: Bad Farsi Fonts or something

2005-12-02 Thread Medi Montaseri
olute the problem... Thanks guys... MediOn 12/2/05, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Medi Montaseri wrote:> Hi> I am having some problems with my Farsi fonts on my browser and in gedit> on a Linux box (Fedor Core 4, Gnome )>> My problem is> >

Bad Farsi Fonts or something

2005-12-02 Thread Medi Montaseri
Hi I am having some problems with my Farsi fonts on my browser and in gedit on a Linux box (Fedor Core 4, Gnome ) My problem is Letter "Ye" is always rendered as though it was an independent or detatched letter. For example, in the word "MILI" (as in mili-second) all the "Ye" letters are rende

Re: MySQL 4.0, FULL-TEXT Indexing and Search Arabic Data, Unicode

2005-11-24 Thread Medi Montaseri
One solution would be to augment a DB capability at the application level. That is instead of the search or select qualified by a SQL where clause, simply get everything (select *) and then let the application filter what you want. Then when your given DB provides that operation by itself, simplify

Jalali.pm Ver 1.2 with Farsi Support

2005-09-11 Thread Medi Montaseri
Hi, I just released Jalali.pm ver 1.2 available at http://montaseri.net/download Briefly, Jalali.pm is a Perl Module for Jalalian and Gregorian calander conversion and Time Traveling (N days ago, N days ahead, etc). Version 1.2 also supports FArsi and ENglish, such that you can get things like

Re: DB and Date data type

2005-06-07 Thread Medi Montaseri
(Formatting of Dates and Times) but that might be just Year/Month/Day vs Month/Day/Year type of deals... Thanks and keep up the good work... Mehdi MontaseriOn 6/7/05, AmirBehzad Eslami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:18 AM, Medi Montaseri <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Date data type in MySQL

2005-06-06 Thread Medi Montaseri
Thanks Mohsen...On 6/5/05, mohsen ali momeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,>> I was wondering how Date data type is dealt with in such databases> as PostgreSQL or mySQL?>> Databases usually have Date related operations such as equality,> less than, greater than, etc . But most databases have the

Re: info@farsiweb.info

2005-06-05 Thread Medi Montaseri
butions, why not just post them here?behdadOn Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Medi Montaseri wrote:> Hi,>> I have emailed "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" over a week ago with no reply/avail. > Anyone knows of any other way to contact> farsiweb.info<http://farsiweb.info>folks.&g

info@farsiweb.info

2005-06-03 Thread Medi Montaseri
Hi, I have emailed "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" over a week ago with no reply/avail. Anyone knows of any other way to contact farsiweb.info folks. I had some contribs Thanks Mehdi ___ PersianComputing mailing list PersianComputing@lists.sharif.edu http:

DB and Date data type

2005-06-03 Thread Medi Montaseri
Hi, I was wondering how Date data type is dealt with in such databases as PostgreSQL or mySQL? Databases usually have Date related operations such as equality, less than, greater than, etc . But most databases have the Gregorian Calendar and not Jalalian. Any solutions or hacks? Thanks Mehdi __

RE: What is address and telephone format for Iran

2004-01-21 Thread Medi Montaseri
I'd say the first format is more correct...at one point (while living in Iran) I used the following format for my company address and it worked.   Medi Montaseri Dorsa Shabakeh 6-46 Motahari Blvd Shiraz, Iran 71834   In contrast with   Medi Montaseri Dorsa Shabakeh Motahari

Internationalization HOW-TO / Roadmap

2004-01-13 Thread Medi Montaseri
Greetings My organization has asked us to "internationalize" our storage management software. Naturally I thought why not do it in Farsi...this way I learn the technique and if that product ever comes to Iranthen so match the better... Basically I need some type of a high level hand-holdi