Re: FW: Persian alphabet

2001-03-18 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Roozbeh Pournader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: ... Do you know how teh marbutah sorts in Arabic or other languages written in Arabic script? In Arabic it's sorted before Teh, I believe. Not considered a "character" in Arabic; it's not part of

Re: Arabic sorting [was Re: FW: Persian alphabet]

2001-03-18 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On 17 Mar 2001, Gregg Reynolds wrote: Not considered a "character" in Arabic; it's not part of the abjad. Doesn't sort at all, in other words. That's in Arabic, mind you, not computerese; Arabid doesn't do "alphabetic" sorting. Although I guess you could say it always sorts after the

RE: FW: Persian alphabet

2001-03-17 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: Teh marbuta sorted with heh is surprising: I thought it would have been sorted with teh. But, of course, I have no idea how the letter is pronounced in Farsi: is it ever read [t]? It's pronounced as [t] in Persian, but it's sorted with Heh. Please

FW: Persian alphabet

2001-03-16 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- From: Vladimir Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Persian alphabet Dear colleagues, If it is the right address to send questions, may I ask you the following: Does the standard of UniCode

Re: FW: Persian alphabet

2001-03-16 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: Does the standard of UniCode include standards on alphabetical order for the letters and other symbols, used in different languages. Unicode only addresses a global sorting algorithm, which you can find at:

Re: FW: Persian alphabet

2001-03-16 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: In what way is the MS sort for the Farsi locale inadequate? What locale needs are not served, precisely? The short answer is that I don't know. A colleague have tested that, and after that he found that there are some issues and they