Re: Display Persian characters under Linux

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Sat Jul 29 2000 - 16:57:21 EDT


On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> The current Arabic script font standard (which covers Farsi) is
> ISO 8859-6. You may see ECMA-114 or ASMO 449 mentioned in some places.

ISO 8859-6 does not cover Farsi. There are at least six missing important
letters, PEH, TCHEH, JEH, KEHEH, GAF, and FARSI YEH.

> Yes, you need to find Farsi fonts encoded in either 8859-6 or
> Unicode. Any search engine can find a number of sites for you.

There's no Farsi font encoded in 8859-6 because of the stated reason.

> Bidi only matters to you if your Farsi data is sometimes mixed with
> material in other writing systems.

Or you have alphabetic data mixed with numerical data. Bidi is needed even
for pure Persian text, since the numbers are written left-to-right.

--roozbeh



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