Roozbeh,
I was told that there was a special (semi official) version of Win98 that
added 4 missing letters in CP1256 by replacing Latin letters to create
CP1256mod. It used LCID 0826.
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of Roozbeh Pournader
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:18 AM
> To: Mark Leisher
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Mark Leisher wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me how the Persian YEH (U+06CC) is dealt with
> in a CP1256
> > context? Has the official mapping changed from the following page?
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1256.htm
>
> CP1256 has never supported FARSI YEH.
>
> > Or perhaps the "0xFF YEH BARREE" is assumed to be Persian YEH
> in the Persian
> > locale.
>
> No it's not. Persian locale is only avaiable on Windows 2000 and XP, which
> are Unicode based.
>
> roozbeh
>
>
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