Hello everybody,<br><br>Persian localization team and community members of KDE have come to an agreement [0] on change of their language name from "Farsi (Persian)" into "Persian". So wherever the Persian language is mentioned in KDE, it should be referred to as "Persian".<br>
<br>For your information, the main arguments backing this decision is:<br> * Either "Farsi" or "Persian" is correct and descriptive enough not to use them both at the same time as in "Farsi (Persian)"<br>
* Academy of Persian Language and Literature [1] recommends use of "Persian" over "Farsi" [2]<br> * The international standard, ISO 639-2 [3], recognizes our language as "Persian"<br> * Adoption of "Persian" by many major dictionaries, universities, institutes, organizations, companies, etc. [4]<br clear="all">
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[0] <a href="http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-fa/2008-February/" target="_blank">http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-fa/2008-February/</a><a href="http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-fa/2008-February/" target="_blank"></a><br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature#Announcement_of_the_Academy_about_the_English_name_of_Persian_language" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature#Announcement_of_the_Academy_about_the_English_name_of_Persian_language</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php</a> and/or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes#P" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes#P</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://farsipersian.com/" target="_blank">http://farsipersian.com/</a><br><br>-- <br> Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah