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

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:18:56 -0500, Nicholas Bodley
<nbodley@...> wrote:

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

If that's all you need, then the four extra letters should be sufficient.

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

Not in Farsi. As PTD said, Sindhi is one language that uses such
letters (and the only one I'm aware of which does).

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>