Fw: No "Farsi" language in RSS?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Shan" <derek.shan@home.com>
To: <dave@userland.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:15 AM
Subject: No "Farsi" language in RSS?


> Dear Dave,
> 
> (Sorry for my poor English)
> 
> I'm an Iranian (Persian) guy living in Toronto. Last month I launched my
> weblog (http://hoder.com/i) in "Farsi" language using UTF-8 standard.
> But I'd like to use XML-RSS for it. It's a while that I'm trying to find
> out what is RSS and now I've found out some useful things about it. 
> 
> But the problem is that in your RSS specs, there is no "Farsi" value for
> <language> sub-element. Also I wonder weather I can use RSS for UTF-8
> (Unicode) standard.
> 
> To tell you the truth, I wonder why Blogging community does not
> encourage multi-language solutions. Seems that all tools are being built
> only for Western languages. Please don't ignore other cultures and
> languages in this Weblog Revolution. :)
> 
> BTW, I read your Blog everyday and I really appritiae your non-biased
> attitude toward  our reagion's issues.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Derek Shan
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