[unicode] Persian Alphabet

[Vladimir Ivanov]

Dear friends,   We work in Microsoft Word under Windows 2000 on Persian-Russian dictionaries and need standard Persian sorting. This standard is described, for instance, in (Editing Guide "Rahnema-ye Virayesh", Gholam Hoseyn Gholam Hoseyn Zadeh, Tehran, 2000 (1379), pp.106-107). For experimentation we made a list of 4 Persian words: vAzhe "word" kArgar "worker" yAd "memory" hich "never" A zipped doc-file with that list is included in this message.   The correct result of their sorting should be: kArgar vAzhe hich yAd   Setting the option of sorting order to "Farsi" we tried : 1) Word 2000 and Word XP under Windows 2000; 2) Word XP under Persian Windows 98 (made by Sina Software from Arabic Windows 98). The result of sorting is the same and it is incorrect: hich vAzhe yAd kArgar   We get the same result in Windows "Input locals" set to Farsi, English or Russian. Is such an ordering a feature of Windows or Office? May be don't know the right trick? How can we fix such a problem? It would be a pity to sort dictionaries in other programs, because we'll lose all the formatting.   Sincerely, Prof. Vladimir Ivanov, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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