C Bobroff wrote:
I believe Roozbeh, while typing the document was attempting to translateWell, I am afraid that may cause some problems in the future, especially some ugly political ones. Let me tell you a story. The first time we tried to approach High Council of Informatics "showraaye aaliye anformaatik" to discuss a Unicode proposal, they were against using Unicode, just because the letters were named "Arabic letter ...". They were of course mistaken, and it took a long time and effort to achieve their support. I am sure Roozbeh still remembers those times.
"Perso-Arabic script" into Persian. Not an easy job. I recommend for the
final draft, you say "khatt-e 'arabi" and then in parentheses or footnote,
just put the English (Perso-Arabic script). I don't think that for the
purposes of this draft you need to get into the history of the
calligraphic styles and orthographic conventions.
Now, first of all, we do not talk about script family. Everyone agrees that Persian script belongs to the Arabic scripts family. We just say "Persian script", and in a note we explain that this script belongs to the Arabic scripts family. Please note that unlike western scripts that can be called Latin script, there are many national and political barriers and dilemmas, which prevent the nations on this side of the world to call their script Arabic script. Choosing a very liberal, and somehow radical, approach at the moment doesn't solve all of them!
Secondly, as I mentioned before, we clearly have in the constitution that the name of both language and script are Farsi. If we provide a document that will become official and in which refer to our script as Arabic (no matter how we explain it in a note), that surely will have some side-effects.
Best -ali-
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