Free Software In Iran, KDE In Farsi

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.)

Comments

Re:what is FLOSS

[1u3hr]

I was expecting something more like this.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[hdparm]

Is that so, shithead? Did he become famous troll with his first or second /. post? Or perhaps this one?

GTK does Farsi, too

[Lars Clausen]

One language option that my RedHat installation at work came with was Farsi. Just for kicks, I selected that, and most text was indeed little squiggly lines. To get actual work done, I changed back to English, though for unknown reason one bit of Farsi stuck around. So I still have a home directory called squiggle-squiggle-squiggle.

-Lars

Re:Farsi is Right to Left

[1u3hr]

think your lecturer was displaying a bit of British language purism, Queen's English

No, because what he advocates is NOT Queen's English.