On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael Everson wrote:
> 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?
No. The keyboard mapper should generate the four characters (or possibly
six, with the two non-joiners) when the user presses Shift-4. We will
recommend this in our next national keyboard standard. Microsoft Persian
keyboard, available in Windows 2000, already supports this idea on its
shift-R. It produces the four letters.
There is a possible need for distinguishing the two in some applications
or environments (they may want the narrower shape for example), and we
will leave to them the choice of using the Rial character or some higher
level standard.
> 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. --
No. Such a mapping table does not respect the difference between the Rial
sign and the string "Reh Yeh Alef Lam" in the ISIRI 3342 encoded file.
(BTW, I just saw your grass radicals proposal. I can understand many
things now, including why you hate compatiblity characters :)))
--roozbeh
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