Persian Emacs

Dear Fellow Persian/Arabic Speaker,

Today for writing, most Persian and Arabic speakers use Microsoft Windows products such as MS Word and MS PowerPoint.

The manner-of-existence of Microsoft Windows is closed (internally opaque) and proprietary. It is made by an American corporation and Windows and Windows products are subject to the corrupt Western copyright and patent regime.

In the business driven Western proprietary model, Perso-Arabic users are always second class citizens because they represent an insignificant market to the likes of American Microsoft and American Google. The proprietary corporation is in charge and determines communication and computing capabilities of Perso-Arabic societies.

Under these circumstances, the responsibilities of software engineering profession are two fold.

1. To point out the right and the wrong manner-of-existence of software and their ramifications.
2. To provide equivalent or superior software whose manner-of-existence is open-source (internally transparent) and is free/libre for public use and copying. It is only this manner-of-existence of software that we consider Halaal.

For our usage and meaning of the word Halaal see:

Introducing Halaal and Haraam into Globish
Based on Moral Philosophy of Abstract Halaal
معرفیِ حلال و حرام به بقیه‌یِ دنیا
http://www.persoarabic.org/PLPC/120039

With regard to (1), we have defined Halaal Software in:

Defining Halaal Manner-Of-Existence Of Software
And Defining Halaal Manner-Of-Existence Of Internet Services
http://www.persoarabic.org/PLPC/120041

With regard to (2) and towards protecting society and humanity, we introduce to you the Halaal Software “Emacs” for writing and processing Persian/Farsi.

Emacs is world’s most potent multilingual editor-centered user experience platform. Emacs comes with a rich mail reader, a personal planner, an address book, a calendar, spell checkers for English and Persian, multi-lingual dictionary interfaces and many other tools and packages; all integrated together. Because Emacs supports Persian, all these tools and packages also support Persian.

Two built-in Persian input methods are part of the Emacs 24 distribution.

farsi-isiri-9149:

farsi-isiri-9149: A Persian keyboard based on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ISIRI-9147 specification.

farsi-transliterate-banan:

An intuitive transliteration keyboard for Farsi.

For additional information, please see:

Persian Input Methods
For Emacs And More Broadly Speaking
شیوه‌هایِ درج به فارسی‌
http://www.persoarabic.org/PLPC/120036

Emacs is free and open source software and its usage and copying is not restricted and is free of charge.

Towards supporting and encouraging use and development of Persian Emacs, we have built www.persoarabic.org.

To get started with Emacs, the following links are relevant:

About Emacs

http://www.persoarabic.org/emacs/#AboutEmacs

Obtaining Emacs

http://www.persoarabic.org/emacs/#ObtainingEmacs

Selecting Persian Language

http://www.persoarabic.org/emacs/#SelectingPersianLanguage

Selecting Persian Input Methods

http://www.persoarabic.org/emacs/#SelectingPersianInputMethods

A Sample Farsi Editing Session

http://www.persoarabic.org/emacs/#SampleFarsiEditingSession

In addition to being superior to other editors and other user experience platforms, the manner-of-existence of Emacs is correct. It is halaal software. Above all, it is for this reason that we encourage you to use Emacs.

At your services,