James> In an older book covering Iranian coinage one can find, in addition James> to "rial", other monetary units like "dinar", "toman", "kran James> (qiran)", etc. The letters forming any of these monetary unit James> words might combine calligraphically to form unique and beautiful James> ligatures, but perhaps this should be treated as a display/fonts James> issue rather than an encoding issue. The explanation I was given was that words like "toman" are used more like "dollar" as opposed to "rial," which is used like "$" (i.e. they are "spelled out" in a sense). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Leisher Times are bad. Children no longer obey Computing Research Lab their parents, and everyone is writing New Mexico State University a book. Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Marcus Tullius Cicero Las Cruces, NM 88003
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