There is no specific collation for Farsi that is currently supported under
Windows that is separate from the various Arabic collations.
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Ivanov" <iranorus@online.ru>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <chrispr@microsoft.com>; "Michael (michka) Kaplan"
<michka@trigeminal.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: Persian Alphabet
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, iranorus@online.ru
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