> 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... -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex