MickKa,
If I recall, it was distributed as a patch to Arabic Win98 so if you were
inclined to buy a copy of Windows in a country with no intellectual property
laws you co then apply the patch which made minor modifications to add the
LCID and make changes to the Unicode to code page conversion and add a few
Farsi fonts and you were ready to go. I don't think that they actually
translated the system resource files so it was a bit of a hack.
I know there are 3rd party fixes, but I thought that some folks in MS
developed one that was not an official product. There are also 3rd party
Urdu patches but I don't think that the MS folks ever did an Urdu patch.
Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:michka@trigeminal.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:01 AM
> To: Carl W. Brown; unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: CP1256 and Persian YEH?
>
>
> 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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