Persian Information Interchange Standard

The FarsiWeb Project Group is proud to announce the final version of "Information Technology — Persian Information Interchange and Display Mechanism, using Unicode". This standard was prepared under a contract with High Council of Informatics of Iran (HCI), and was supported by Science and Arts Foundation, HCI, and Sharif University of Technology.

The first draft was presented at a seminar hosted by HCI on September 12, 2001, and has been heavily revised based on comments from linguistic and computing experts and developers. It was then approved by the National Standards Committee of Computers and Data Processing of Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran to become a national standard, on its two meetings on March 10 and May 8, 2002.

Any comments should be sent to the FarsiWeb Project Group directly, at FWPG@sharif.edu or to the FarsiWeb discussion list, after subscription. All these comments will be considered in the next ammendments to the text of the standard.

The Standard Draft

Following are the electronic versions of the final version and the presentations made by the FarsiWeb Project Group at the HCI seminar (all in Persian).

The final version is available in the following formats:

• A PostScript version (gzipped, 381 KB) is available as the reference version. You can view it on screen or print it using Ghostscript (which is available for many platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS), or directly print it to a PostScript printer.
• A PDF version (276 KB) is available for those who prefer Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please note that this version is optimized for viewing on a computer screen, and the PostScript version has a better quality for printing on paper.

The presentations of September 2001 seminar are available in PowerPoint format. You may need Windows 2000 and PowerPoint 2000 to view them (speaker notes are not available):

• Introduction to Unicode, a presentation made at the HCI meeting by Dr Yahya Tabesh, FarsiWeb's Project Leader.
• Introducing the Standard Draft for Persian Information Interchange, a presentation made at the HCI meeting by Roozbeh Pournader, FarsiWeb's Technical Manager.

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