Re: New team for Dari (prs)

[Khalid Amiri Amarkhail <khalid paiwastoon com af>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Mazdak Kiani <mazdak kiani yahoo com> 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