Author: UnKnown Vahid Alimardani
Uploader: Paymaan Jafari. [email protected]
Farsi (Or sometimes referred to as Persian) is the Language of us; Iranians (also sometimes called Persians). This Language has character shapes other than Latin. It has 32 alphabets that 26 of them are in common with Arabic. The number shapes are alike in most digits and can be used in place of each other.
Each alphabet, unlike Latin and Roman, may has several shapes, related to position in the word. Some has just one shape, and some has up to 4 shapes. this multi-shape characters make about 150 characters if we want to build all the exact forms. Cause of such a big problem, the characters shapes is reduced in normal DOS-Type screens. There are some standards for both character map and and their position in ASCII table, but the most popular standard is called IranSystem (made by IranSystem company).
The second matter is direction. Farsi caligarphy is written right-to-left and the numbers are written left-to-right just like english. Arabic numbers are both written and read reversely, although the number is seen as english and Farsi.
SEPAND does just one. It gets resident in the system and:
- DownLoads Farsi character set to an EPSON Compatible (ESC/P2) Printer.
- Makes a hotkey to change output Farsi or English, enabling to print both languages simultaneuosly. If you have run the program, you can Select between types of printing alphabets and numbers, and which one Farsi/English, but if your text contains some special characters (like checkmark), you can't see the correct form.
Normally people run it at startup, maybe in autoexec. you can also run whenever you need, at DOS prompt. Copy the command where you like and then call it when needed. This version is a one time resident program and this means that if you run it more than one time, no problem will be occured.
After running the program nothing visually happens. Normal DOS prompt will be work. When you want to change the printer output, you have to press both SHIFT keys simultaneously. on your keyboard and an small window appears that shows printing options. you have to choose desired options and then download printer. In any text editor you can do the same for Farsi typing.
The Program is freeware in Iran, and there are no limitations on it's usage, but as provider, I ask anybody to not use it for War, Making Guns, or any Bio/MicroBialogical warcrafts and/or Athomic, Neutronical Bombs and any stuff alike those mentioned. In one word, nothing against GOD, Peace, Love And Humanity.
** I am not responsible for any damage this program may cause. **
** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK **
You can redistrebute this file as long as no change has been made to the SEPAND.Zip archive content.
We are an Amiga programmer group in Iran, normally working on Amiga stuff, but I thought may some PC stuffs be of use of people around the world, mostly Iranian people.
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Paymaan Jafari, Computer Hardware Student, PALAPAL Amiga Programmers Group, Tehran, Iran.
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