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

[Arash Partow]

There are means by which you can setup a vote through KDE org
for such things. Ask around I'm sure someone from the ml group
admin would be willing to help.


Arash


mahyar.moqimi at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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