L10n:Teams:fa/Rules

Persian (fa) Team

This is a draft

Team Rules

Translation Rules

If you wanna help this team in translations,here are the basic rules:

Name of the Language

The local name of the language is فارسی (not پارسی)

The international name of the language is Persian (not Parsi, nor Farsi).

• Iranian Constitution, section 15
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Iranian Keyboard

You probably need to get an Iranian keyboard layout, so you can type Persian characters easily.

• The Standard Iranian keyboard layout and installation instructions: http://www.farsiweb.ir/wiki/Standard_Persian_keyboard

Zero-Width Non-Joiner

Also known as Nim fāseleh, Fāseleh-ye majāzi, Fāseleh-ye sefr, Pseudo-space.

It's wrong to use SPACE in the middle of a word to break the joining. You should use ZWNJ in this cases.

• You can type this character by pressing:
  • Windows: Shift+B
  • Linux: Shift+Space or Shift+B

Correct form with ZWNJ: می‌خواهم
Incorrect (with space): می خواهم 
Incorrect (joined)    : میخواهم

• More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner and http://www.laits.utexas.edu/rfpit/persianword/zwnj.htm

Persian Academy Guideline

• Persian Script Guideline (دستور خطّ فارسى)
• Persian Academy Glossary (واژه‌های مصوّب)

Glossary of Persian Mozilla

TBD.

English to Persian Dictionary

You can use farsilookup.com for other words that don't exist in the Guideline or Glossary.

Membership Rules

TBD.