This is a draft. If you have any suggestion and/or objection please discuss it at team's mailing list first.
Team Rules
If you want to help this team, please follow the following basic rules:
Name of the Language
The native name of the language is فارسی /fâr-sii/ (not پارسی /pâr-sii/)
The English name of the language is Persian (not Parsi, not Farsi).
Iranian Constitution, Article 15 (English Wikipedia)
Iranian Constitution, Article 15 (Persian Wikisource)
Keyboard Layout
You probably need to get the Iranian Standard keyboard layout, so you can type Persian characters correctly and easily.
Script Guideline
Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a body presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries.
Persian Academy Glossary (واژههای مصوّب) (Persian)
You can buy the printed version from their bookstore on 3rd avenue, Bokharest St., Tehran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature
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 (On Iranian standard keyboard layout)
- (FIXME: How to type ZWNJ on Microsoft keyboard layout?)
Linux: Shift+Space or Shift+B
- Windows:
Examples:
- Correct form with ZWNJ: میخواهم
- Incorrect (with space): می خواهم
- Incorrect (joined) : میخواهم
Find out more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner and http://www.laits.utexas.edu/rfpit/persianword/zwnj.htm
Glossary
Please use ../Glossary. You can use farsilookup.com for other works that do not exist in the Glossaries, but Please don't forget to add it to the glossary.