Re: New team for Dari (prs)

["Ghader Balkhi" <gh balkhi gmail com>]

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 <khalid paiwastoon com af> wrote:

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

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