James> In an older book covering Iranian coinage one can find, in addition
James> to "rial", other monetary units like "dinar", "toman", "kran
James> (qiran)", etc. The letters forming any of these monetary unit
James> words might combine calligraphically to form unique and beautiful
James> ligatures, but perhaps this should be treated as a display/fonts
James> issue rather than an encoding issue.
The explanation I was given was that words like "toman" are used more like
"dollar" as opposed to "rial," which is used like "$" (i.e. they are "spelled
out" in a sense).
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