[Kde-i18n-fa] Announcement of Change in Language Name for Persian

[Arash Bizhan zadeh]

I do not remember any conclusion or voting on this matter; the thread was an
argument without any specific result. You should have at least asked the
members to vote.

Regards,
Arash

2008/2/8 Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah <mebrahim at gmail.com>:

> Hello everybody,
>
> 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".
>
> For your information, the main arguments backing this decision is:
>  * Either "Farsi" or "Persian" is correct and descriptive enough not to
> use them both at the same time as in "Farsi (Persian)"
>  * Academy of Persian Language and Literature [1] recommends use of
> "Persian" over "Farsi" [2]
>  * The international standard, ISO 639-2 [3], recognizes our language as
> "Persian"
>  * Adoption of "Persian" by many major dictionaries, universities,
> institutes, organizations, companies, etc. [4]
>
> --- Links ---
> [0] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-fa/2008-February/<http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-i18n-fa/2008-February/>
> [1]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature
> [2]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature#Announcement_of_the_Academy_about_the_English_name_of_Persian_language
> [3] http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php and/or
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes#P
> [4] http://farsipersian.com/
>
> --
>         Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah
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