On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ali A Khanban wrote: > 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.
Really? Amazing story. Thank you for the "bit of history." Well, if it is too unpalatable to say "khatt-e 'arabi," then just say "Perso-Arabic script" in English or don't say it at all. I don't think there is too much danger of people thinking we're speaking of Cuneiform (khatt-e mikhi) which is what in other contexts may spring to mind if you say "khatt-e farsi." By all means, get the draft written so that the technical problems may be solved! I think Behdad is sitting somewhere right now wondering if he should add this topic to the Persian vs. Farsi war! -Connie _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
