Re: Meaning of a.o. Persian

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:20:06 EDT

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    On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:06, Patrick Andries wrote:
    > UTR 20, table 4.1 writes that ZWNJ and ZWJ are needed for « a.o. Persian ».
    >
    > What does the abbreviation « a.o. » mean ? Arabic O..?

    I have no clue about that, but ...

    > Is this current Farsi or some historical Persian ?

    ZWNJ and ZWJ are required for encoding modern Persian, which is the
    language Iranians officially call "فارسی" [fa:rsi:] and the Afghans call
    "دری" [dæri:], and is written in the Arabic script.

    roozbeh



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