Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 12:00:33 EDT


Probably mistaken -- or a "pirate" version (pirate is in quotes there since
legally it is not pirating to copy software, modify it, and sell it as your
own in certain countries).

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl W. Brown" <cbrown@xnetinc.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

> 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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