Re: Oblique Farsi? -- also recognizing Arabic vs. Farsi

From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 3856
Date: 2005-01-05

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:09:46 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

> IMO, the easiest way to distinguish Farsi from Arabic is by spotting
> the four extra letters that Farsi added to the alphabet

Thanks, kindly! I'll keep your comments for reference.

I seem to recall aone or more letters with four dots in a 2x2 array, also.

My query was not to try to distinguish among all languages that use, or
did use, Arabic script, just between Arabic language and Farsi.

Best regards,

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