Re: RE: Incorrect names for Arabic letters

From: Philippe VERDY (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sun Mar 20 2005 - 16:54:42 CST

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    "Jony Rosenne" <rosennej@qsm.co.il> wrote:
    > AFAIK ISO 8589-6

    I suppose you mean "ISO 8859-6", not "ISO 8589-6" here...

    > was derived from an ASMO (Arab Standardization and
    > Meteorological Organisation) standard.

    And then accepted by ASMO as its new standard:
      "ISO 8859-6:1987 (ASMO 449E)"
    deprecating the legacy previous version "ASMO 449" standard from which the ISO version was created.

    > Among the people involved were a Lebanese and a number of Syrians
    > and Egyptians .
    > http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ishaq/arabic/asm/node53.html#699
    > http://www.ituarabic.org/Annual03/Documents/Doc35.ppt#12



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