Hi,
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Well, it depends on your point of view. Instead of bringing theI brought up Pashto and Ordu cases, because they are more relevant to our alphabet.
Pashto or Ordu case, lets have a look at the western equivalent.
They all call it Latin Script ("khatte laatin"), right? It's not
about language or font-style. And in computer software that's
what really matters.
Moreover from another point of view--the Unicode standard--we areAgain, I'd like to know if other Arabic-based scripts, such as Pashto and Ordu, call themselves "Arabic script" in their locale. If it is common among all these scripts to call themselves Arabic (the case for Latin-based scripts), then we should do that, too. Otherwise, we should call it "Persian Script" and add some information (Arabic-based nature of the script and so on) in a note.
using the Arabic script, there's no such thing as Persian script
encoded in the Unicode standard.
Best -ali-
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Ali A Khanban wrote:
Hi,
The name of the script, as in attachment, seems wrong. According to the constitution, the name of the language and script is Farsi (Persian). Look at http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-2.html and http://www.moi.gov.ir/ghavanin/asasi.htm#three
I know that Persian script comes from Arabic and many may know it as Arabic, but are all the scripts with their root in Arabic script called Arabic? For example Pashto or Ordu?
Best -ali-
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
I am glad to announce the availability of the first public draft of the specification of locale requirements of Persian for Iran. The text tries to specify the general requirements of internationalized software for the Persian language of Iran. It's available from:
http://www.farsiweb.info/locale/locale-0.6.pdf
Please note that this is a draft, and needs your comments in order to get improved and corrected. FarsiWeb's plan is to keep this a living and maintained document. For feedback or comments, please email us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or call us at +98 21 602-2372. You can also write to us at the following address:
Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. PO Box 13445-389 Tehran, Iran
Also, please note that the documentation is published under a free documentation license. For the exact details, see the text of the license (and contact us or your lawyer in case of ambiguities, we are able to explain the license or relicense the text in certain conditions), but I wish to mention in short that the text is copyrighted, and free documentation doesn't mean that you are allowed to do anything you like with the text. You are allowed to use the information you learn for any purpose of course, including using them in proprietary software.
The project has been funded and supported by the High Council of Informatics of Iran, and the Computing Center of Sharif University of Technology. We also wish to thank the Persian Linux project for helping in the funding.
I wish to thank Hamed Malek, Behnam Esfahbod, Houman Mehr, Elnaz Sarbar, Behdad Esfahbod, Meelad Zakaria, Mehran Mehr, and the PersianComputing community for their advice and contributions to the work. But as the main contributor, every fault should only be blamed on me.
Roozbeh Pournader Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
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