[XeTeX] Persian verus Farsi

Petr Tomasek tomasek at etf.cuni.cz
Mon Jun 13 00:14:08 CEST 2011


> There doesn't seem much to worry about Persian (or any other language) being
> called differently in different languages. The cause for alarm is if a
> particular language is suddenly and deliberately renamed by some group. In
> English the subject language has been called "Persian" for centuries. So it
> should be of concern that the Foreign Language School administered by the US
> State Department calls it "Farsi"!
> 
> Kamal Abdali

What's wrong with it? It's natural that names do change and there
doesn't have to be any "political" reason for that...

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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