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

[mahyar.moqimi at gmail.com]

I agree that it should have been formal
and as I said before we are not real candidates of 70 million people.!
there should have been a voting in at least iranian linux sites and forum.
although I don`t like this subject to bother the real job

On 2/9/08, Arash Partow <arash at partow.net> wrote:
> 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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