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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