RE: Decimal separator with more than one character?

From: Roozbeh Pournader ([email protected])
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 10:15:59 EDT

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On Wed, 21 May 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> Ah! So, it looks like Farsi -- er, Persian -- speakers call it "farsi"
> (that's a transcription, not an English spelling), but that English
> speakers are expected to say and write "Persian". :-)

That's right. The same you do with "German" vs "Deutch", "French" vs
"Francais", "Irish" vs "Gaelige", "Dutch" vs ...

Of course you may have another authoritative source that recommends
something else, and you are free to use it.

BTW, I'll transcribe it as 'faarsi' in ASCII. The IPA is "fa:rsi:".

roozbeh

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