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Persic (“Pahlavi”) Font

Monday 26 July 2004, by Razmik YEGHNAZARY


{Hām-dibīrīh}: Click to download.

The kind of the Persic script we have presented here is called Hām-dibīrīh:

Complete Keyboard Map for the Ham-dibirih:

The Hām-dibīrīh is from right to left. For this reason the Persic font has been designed to work with the Persian (Farsi) program in the XP. “²” in the keyboard marks stop. For example:

A sample text from the beginning of the Husrō ī kavādān ud rēdak-ē:


{Hām-dibīrīh}: Click to download.

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