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 - 08:07:02 EDT

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    At 03:50 -0700 2003-05-21, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
    >From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    >
    >> At 15:58 -0700 2003-05-20, Rick Cameron wrote:
    >
    >> >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.
    >
    >In practice, neither Apple nor Microsoft (nor any other member of the
    >Consortium) is allowed to sell software in Iran at present.

    Well, you may have problems with your national administration. Both
    companies, however, distribute software intended to support the
    Persian language, and indeed Apple manufactures keyboards engraved
    for Persian, and calls the software keyboard layout "Persian" so what
    is your point? ;-) 

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

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