Re: [predefined-counter-styles] Correction to the persian-alphabetic counter style from Shervin Afshar via GitHub on 2018-06-13 (public-i18n-archive@w3.org from April to June 2018)

From: Shervin Afshar via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 08:20:03 +0000
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I strongly suggest collecting samples for this before making any specification decisions. My usual source for these matters is Adib-soltani and here is what I see there:

1. it's never `الف‍`. it's always `الف`;
2. dot is not used after the counter letter; rather `⁧‫الف)‬` than `‫الف.‬`;
3. no mention of the behavior for numbers larger than 32

Also, couple of other observations:

Abjad might end up tricky; some sources (much less credible than Adib-soltani) mention that 11, 12, and 13 should be `یا‍` and `یب` and `یج`. I'm still researching this.

In "خلاصة السّیاق" (Seyed Hasan Ghajar Tafreshi, 1326 AH, Tehran), a tabulation of the abjads and their values is presented. Note presented forms for م.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/875962/41338489-2def2572-6ea7-11e8-9154-fe5736ab6dc7.png)

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