Re: Persian or Farsi? (was RE: Decimal separator with more than one c haracter?)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 04:29:16 EDT

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    At 15:58 -0700 2003-05-20, Rick Cameron wrote:
    >It's not just Microsoft - Apple also calls the language Farsi in their
    >developer docs. See, for example,
    ><http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/text/ScriptManager/Script
    >_Manager/scriptmgr_refchap/enum_group_2.html>
    >
    >The 'Regional and Language Options' control panel in Windows XP also uses
    >'Farsi'. (Don't have a Mac, so I can't check it.)

    The Mac OS X Persian keyboard is called "Persian".

    >Encyclopaedia Britannica online has an article titled 'Persian Language',
    >which starts 'also called Farsi'.
    >
    >Why should we avoid calling the language 'Farsi'?

    Because that's what the Iranians prefer to call it? Because that's
    its traditional name in English? I have a shelf full of Persian
    dictionaries. 

    -- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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