RE: CP1256 and Persian YEH?

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 17:20:03 EDT


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Carl W. Brown wrote:

> 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.

You sure that was from MS folks? There are many such patches available
here in Iran, but no single one is claimed to be from Microsoft itself.

roozbeh



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