Re: farsi. farsi! farsi? farsi:

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Behnam Esfahbod <behnam at esfahbod dot info> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > > > > Akka 2.0, may make up a good name.  I too prefer not binding a
> > > > > new name to the same functionality.  Perhaps we would want to
> > > > > give some hints and credit to pre-2.0 Akka.  Roozbeh?
> > > >
> > > > I prefer a name more neutral. Something that is not against the
> > > > nationalism of any Arab or Persian or Hebrew person. Go find some!
> > >
> > > Nadim proposed something along 'beacon', as in 'bicon', as in
> > > 'bidi con{sole,dom}'.  I like both.  'bicon' goes more with
> > > 'fribidi's, but as we converted freebidi to fribidi, we do bicon
> > > to beacon too.  I'm with "beacon" then.  [Roozbeh,Behnam: And we
> > > can call it 'faanoos' :)].
> >
> > Cool..., So we can call it Faanoos Navy (TM)!
>
> Actually Faanoos sounds cool :-)

Actually, "Faanoos" with the same spelling is already taken by me
for a couple of projects ;-).  BTW, is it an Arabic word too?

> My votes would be for (in order of preference),
>
>  Akka 2.0
>  Faanoos   (and not fanoos, read why below)
>  BiCon     (or even HetroCon :-)
>  beacon

Based on Google search results, I vote for BiCon too (beacon hits
some 2 million results).  So BiCon, but don't forget that in
filenames it should be written bicon.

Another problem with faanoos is that it's again bounded to
Persian (maybe and Arabic).

> I think it would be a good idea to find a unique name that does
> not produce millions of hits in google at min :-)  This is the
> last I will say about this topic and will leave it to those that
> have worked and will work on the project to decide.

search faanoos in Google and you will be lost in found Persian
pages.

> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim

behdad