Writing and Reading in Tehran
I spent the afternoon discussing Arabic scripts, something the Unicode Consortium created, which is to say, the scripts used to write Arabic language texts, Urdu language texts, and of course, Farsi language texts. Seated next to me was the operator of the Iranian domain registry, who, like me, did maths at Berkeley.
We were figuring out what is wrong with Unicode/IETF, from the point of view of the Awai script, which is used to write Malay, and which is mostly taken from the Unicode "arabic script" set of code points. Doing something constructive.
Meanwhile the papers are full of Likudnic/Cheney foolishness.
