Re: New team for [Dari Persian]

[Ghader Balkhi]

salam mazdak

 I want to help you to translate. when you take coordination, I help in
translate.

ghader


2008/6/8 Mazdak Kiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> now that things are more clear and everybody knows the difference betwen
> dari and pashto,  I want to take coordinationship of dari team.
>
> tanx
> mk
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*wrote:
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: New team for [Dari Persian]
> To: "Zabeeh khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: gnome-i18n@gnome.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 6:50 AM
>
> Dear Zabeeh,
>
> We are to make Afghans united not divided.
> Pashto and Dari both are the official languages of Afghanistan
>  while
> Pashtoons are the majority.
> We can not decide about a tribe or nation on the bases of what some
> certain individuals/leaders of them do.
> Please don't try to be offensive on the list and don't start the type
> of
> discussions which creates only heat not light.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Khalid
>
>
> > ===
> > hi all
> > my purpose is Farsi, Eastern ISO 639-3 code prs.
> > afgahns, tagics, iranian from khorsasan and pakistanians from baluchestan
> > can help us
> > thank
> > specially from Erdal for correcting my mean
> > Mazdak
> > ==
> >
> > Bro..what do you mean that Afghans can help you? I am an
> > Afghan/Pashton/Pathan from Afghanistan and I speak Pashto. I don't
> even
> > understand Persian so how can I help you? where are you from?
> >
> > Afghans are Pashtons/Pathans and they speak and use Pashto.
> >
> > Yes, there are a few Tajiks
>  (destroyers of Aghanistan) here who can speak
> > this Persian.
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Re: New team for Dari (prs)

[Ghader Balkhi]

Hi
i agree with *Tommi, we should use a general name that can be used for more
countries,that accepted by afghans iranians and tajiks and everybody who
speak farsi.
fa_af limits us to afghanestan.*

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Khalid Amiri Amarkhail <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Mazdak Kiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My language ISO 639-3 code is prs:
>>>
>>> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=prs
>>> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=prs
>>>
>>>
>>
>> When we can use ISO 639-1 language codes, we should use those. ISO
>> 639-3 should only be used when a code does not exist.
>>
>> Locale projects, including Unicode CLDR, use fa_AF for Dari. For
>> example, see here:
>>
>> http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey?_=fa_AF&x=languages
>>
>> The list of languages mentioned, for example, shows Afghan names of
>> languages, like "hespaanavi" for Spanish (vs. Iranian Persian
>> "espaaniaayi") and "dari" for Persian (vs. Iranian Persian "faarsi").
>>
>> Same is true about the "Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan"
>> project, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme and
>> approved by Afghanistan's Ministry of Communications, which recommends
>> the code fa_AF again (disclaimer: I'm a co-author of that report):
>>
>> http://www.evertype.com/standards/af/
>>
>> Using fa_AF, your users will also have the benefit of seeing Iranian
>> Persian translations when a Dari translation is not yet available,
>> which helps the users a lot, as Iranian Persian is almost always
>> legible to Afghans.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Roozbeh
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> Salaam,
>
> I support what Roozbeh says, cause Dari is not just a language but an
> official language in Afghanistan (The only country where Dari is an official
> language) so fa_AF is I think better than prs.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Khalid
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