RE: Iranian Rial sign proposal

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 19:56:34 EDT


At 19:50 +0430 2001-04-04, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

>I noted that, but the point is that it's not a unique sign for
>international use. It's only a compatiblity character, and it will be used
>only in "legacy" Persian texts that are converted from ISIRI 3342 (which
>has its own bidi, with only three categories: Left-to-right,
>Right-to-left, and Persian Number).

What's this mean? That in Word 200x, with full Persian support, you
would not use a unitary code point for the rial sign, but instead you
expect users only to type the four letters that make up the word?

>And then it made its way into the national standard character set. And now
>we need it for round-trip. And we do want to discourage its use in all
>ways (unless unavoidable), and we want to mark it as deprecated in all
>ways.

Then your solution is that your round-trip is achieved by a mapping
table that maps one-to-many and many-to-one depending on direction.

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