Re: Farsi text in drawing and text editor

"Arash Partow" <partow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I think the correct question would be:
>
> "Does anybody know how we can display Persian text in a drawing object
> and in an edit box? "

Pedantically, yes. (So I can muster _some_ sympathy for your position.)

However, what is this "Persia" you speak of? I haven't encountered it
on any map lately. This changes the debate a little.

Names like "Spanish" and "German" are English names for foreign (relative
to most Anglophones) languages. Not all language have English names. Not
all have English names that are considered non-offensive by the natives
speaking it - I had to look up Yupik; do the Inuit _like_ being called
Eskimoes now?

In matters of language, common usage and politics may override scientific,
even explicitly linguistic correctness. The British royal family wasn't
always named Windsor, and it's simply a _fact_ that the language referred
to by the OP is commonly called Farsi here.

What language is spoken in Egypt? Egyptian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, or
something else still?

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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