RE: Unicode Conferences - Which one?

To add to what Michael wrote, GDDC's focus is on hands-on solutions and coding techniques for developing world-ready applications and deploying platforms in multilingual environment. The Unicode conference on the other hand is a forum to showcase breakthroughs in the area of internationalization.

RE: Farsi Keheh +06A9 vs. Arabic Kaf +0643 ??

The difference between the Arabic Kaf (U+0643) and the Persian Kaf (U+06A9) is in it's final form. The Arabic Kaf has a Hamza and is missing the diagonal line above the glyoh. Kind Regards, Houman -Original Message- From: Magda Danish (Unicode) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Globalization question.

For Windows: - Developing International Software. An old book out of print, but still by far the best reference in the market. You can find it on-line at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/books/devintl/S24AB.HTM - Check out www.microsoft.com/globaldev for more info on globalization. The globaliz

RE: URDU fonts

Tahoma still remains a quality font and the current shape is pleasant for a lot contexts. Houman -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:36 AM To: Houman Pournasseh; Unicode List Subject: Re: URDU fonts This is

RE: URDU fonts

To add to what have been said by Michael, I should say, that some of the big fonts (multi-script) shipped with Windows 2000 had a GSub table problem with regards to few Urdu specific characters. Part of these issues have been addressed for SP1 and the remaining will be resolved in Whistler. Tahoma

RE: [OT] Localized Persian Windows (was Re: Persian decimal separator)

Microsoft never disclosed Windows source code for localization into Farsi. We once developed a Farsi version of Windows 3.1 entirely in-house and shipped it to Iran. We used a vendor for localization but source bits were never sent to Iran. That product was protected by a dongle which probably w

RE: Persian decimal separator

Seems like the discussion below between Roozbeh and Michael went over its original scoop: finding the right behavior for Farsi currency separator. Implementing the right behavior for Farsi, regardless of legality of usage of our products in Iran is our goal here at Microsoft and as a native Farsi