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Free Software In Iran, KDE In Farsi

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-screenshots dept.

Elektroschock writes "KDE, the leading *nix desktop environment, is translated to Farsi (=Persian). Now native language KDE can be used in Iran as well. Farsi is written from left to right. Full story at Dot KDE. Arash Zeini (KDE Farsi) wrote an intresting article about FLOSS in Iran. His view: "It is not a secret anymore that FLOSS is gaining momentum all over the world. We witness an international move and acceptance of FLOSS in the private as well as in the public sector."" Update: 12/29 16:37 GMT by T : That should read "Farsi is written from right to left." (Thanks to Thomas Zander for pointing that out.)

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  1. Correction by MntlChaos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Farsi is written RIGHT to LEFT. not the other way around. fix please

  2. what is FLOSS by bhny · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml

  3. Re:Wrong-o by Moridineas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't mean to be a pedant--but Farsi is actually an Indo-European language--meaning it's related to Latin, German, Spanish, etc (and Hindi!). You can see this in some cognate words--mother in Farsi is madar, father is pedar, brother baradar, etc.

    Arabic is a semitic language, related to Hebrew. In Arabic these words are very different. (My Arabic is weak but mother can be "umm," father "ab" .. very different).

    Both languages do use the same basic script--the Arabic script, though Farsi does have several additional letters.

  4. Re:Wrong-o by belmolis · · Score: 4, Informative


    Here's the Ethnologue entry for
    Farsi and its position
    in the family tree. The Ethnologue is the best
    single source for reliable information about where
    languages are spoken, by how many people, etc.