Hooman Mehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>Yes, sure. There is no argument with that. The only argument is what
>>"Arabic Script" means in the context of Locale document. In that
>>context, we are not talking about "Khaat e Farsi" but the name of the
>>family of writing systems which are based on Arabic alphabet and its
>>rules. Anybody with access to linguist know of a short common Persian
>>term to use for "the family of writing systems that use and extend
>>Arabic alphabet and its basic rules". I don't think they call the
>>quoted phrase "Khaat e Farsi". "Khaat e Farsi" is a member of that
>>group.
>>"Arabic Script" means in the context of Locale document. In that
>>context, we are not talking about "Khaat e Farsi" but the name of the
>>family of writing systems which are based on Arabic alphabet and its
>>rules. Anybody with access to linguist know of a short common Persian
>>term to use for "the family of writing systems that use and extend
>>Arabic alphabet and its basic rules". I don't think they call the
>>quoted phrase "Khaat e Farsi". "Khaat e Farsi" is a member of that
>>group.
Let me put it in another way. Iranians who used Aramic writing system in middle Persian era, invented a new writing system which had 32 glyphs, 7 of which were redundant (with no pronunciation differences). They also invented a writing rule similar to Arabic. We call it "khatt e farsi". Arabic script itself was not an original script and it was also an adaptation of Aramic script. There can't be a term distinguishing a single name for such variant spectrum of systems because of the language nature.
If you use Arabic script, the word "Arabic" has the cultural notion of a nation. It is not a neutral name. While It doesn't add any thing new to the locale information, it will give this notion that our culture and language is the same. The wast majority of ordinary people in western world still think that we are Arabs, we have the same language and culture, Ave sina was an Arab and etc. Please consider a national identity for our language and culture and don't worry about other similar languages.
Peyman
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