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What is romanization of persian?

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Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:24
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Writing Persian using Roman (English) alphabet is called Persian Romanization. In many countries, Persian is officially written using perso-arabic script. There have been many trials to Romanize Persian language, but up to this date they have not been very successful and are not very popular. Currently in some central Asian countries Cyrillic script is used to Romanize Tadjik-Persian language but it is not very common because of differences between western roman scripts( like the script used in English ) and Russian-based Cyrillic. The most popular Persian Romanization is called Penglish (or fargelisi or fingilish) which is a casual natural-random grow up made by Persian speaking chat users and because of lack of organization, structure and well defined rules, has not the characteristics of a full featured standard. There have been also trials made by other people to Romanize Persian and most of them have defined additional letters to overcome difficulties of writing differences which exist between roman-western alphabet and perso-arabic alphabet which is currently the official Persian script. Currently a scripting standard called Desphilic has been introduced which covers the issue of standardization and uses ordinary computer keyboard.

Problems for left to right scripted language users

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Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:07
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There have been ever continuing discussions about Persian alphabet, even before invention of computer. Apparently being a perso-arabic script writer prevents one from using computers effectively. First of all you have to learn another script/language to be able to start using computers and understand what/whether the computer is responding to you. Again when you want to start writing and typing, you face another problem. There is no hardware and software (at least for first step) designed for you to write in your own script, therefore you should either write in a foreign language/script or translate everything into your own language/script. This is the point when the third problem occurs: translation and scripting. There are few tools for writing right2left scripts like perso-arabic and they function only in few Operating systems. Also they are full of bugs and the dilemma of mixing right2left script with left2right mathematical formula and languages always persists.

Why introducing Desphilic?

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Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:09
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Desphilic standard is a trial to solve problem of reading and writing in computer for Farsi/Persian users.  For using Desphilic in a computer system, you don’t need anything except the usual software and hardware which are always present and are needed for all other languages. You don’t need a special kind of keyboard or keyboard driver, you don’t need Persian labels and you don’t need a special version of OS. The only thing that you need is to learn a small number of simple and easy to use rules. In addition to ease of use in computers, a good RSP can help Persian language to be read, understood, and spoken by a wide portion of non-Persian world. For many non-Iranian and for many multinational Iranian people (for example second generation of migrated Iranian) it is very difficult to learn perso-arabic script. Without a RSP these people are left without any way to communicate with Persian language. Introducing a good RSP can shift Persian toward a better internationalization.

What is this PSR, called Desphilic?

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Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:36
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Desphilic is the first full featured standard for Persian Romanization which uses standard English-US keyboard to literate Persian language and all Persian dialects. Desphilic defines strict rules to transliterate official Persian dictated words from perso-arabic to Roman alphabet and there is usually a one-to-one transformation from official dictation of all Persian words to and from their Desphilic counterparts. Desphilic also defines a set of standards to officially write major Persian dialects. There are application notes on these standards describing grammatical matters related to Romanization.  Also Desphilic relates its standard keyboard script to a German-like keyboard alphabet, preparing the atmosphere toward introducing a Romanized Persian keyboard standard. Desphilic forms and schemes of standardization are very similar to technical IT and electrical standardizations and have tried to obey scientific categorization rules. To use this standard, there is no need to use a special type of software or hardware and there is no need for change when migrating from one computer system or OS to another one. 

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