From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 20:32:31 EDT
At 10:22 -0700 2003-05-24, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Personally, the only authority I care about on this is ISO 639, and in
>that standard the English name for the language is "Persian." Very
>well, then: my software shall call it "Persian." If ISO 639 called it
>"Farsi," I would use that name instead.
ISO 639 is normative on the code elements; the names are informative,
so I would not follow its names as normative. I would tend to favour
the ordinary Oxford as an English authority, and certainly the view
of the Academy in Iran, first. (As it happens they all agree on
"Persian".)
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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