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

[Arash Partow]

I would also like to agree with Arash, no formal vote or action was
made. The only thing that took place was some non-entities sending
back and forth e-mails on a public mailing list.


Arash


Arash Bizhan zadeh wrote:
> 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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