Support for the Persian Jalali calendar

[globalizejs]

Support for the Persian Jalali calendar

[milani]

Any attempt to implement Jalali Calendar?

[rdworth]

Some links for context and history:

Calendars in other languages
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/12/02/498876.aspx

Persian? Or Farsi?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/05/16/599204.aspx

Persian? Or Farsi? Redux
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/05/23/604843.aspx

"We" don't tell you how to spell our language in yours, so...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2008/11/12/9061246.aspx

Arabic ≠ Hebrew, and Hebrew ≠ Arabic
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/02/02/9956547.aspx

A bit about some Arabic script but not Arabic language stuff...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/08/19/10051301.aspx

A difference that makes no difference shouldn't make a difference, but...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/08/30/10055550.aspx

I Dari you! Heck, I Double Dari you!
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/02/01/10122912.aspx

The example was wrong, but the point of the example was spot on!
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/04/06/10150467.aspx

The only way to be impressed by Microsoft is to ignore calendars
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/08/01/10191481.aspx

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Some links for reference that relate more specifically to this issue:

Feedback: Jalaali Calendar should be default calendar for fa-IR culture
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94130/jalaali-calendar-should-be-default-calendar-for-fa-ir-culture

Calendars.NET -- new platform, new issues
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/02/23/378804.aspx

Behold the PersianCalendar class
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/20/482896.aspx

.NET is too busy being consistent with Windows to be consistent with itself....
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/09/29/776495.aspx

Behold the [non-fa-IR default] PersianCalendar class
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/06/26/3559309.aspx

No good way to get one's Jalalis playing with calendars in Windows or .NET, really
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/12/17/6779614.aspx

PersianCalendar Class (System.Globalization.PersianCalendar)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.globalization.persiancalendar.aspx

[rxaviers]

If you need Persian calendar support, please weigh in #320. I'm closing this issue because new research might probably be needed given it's from 2011 and Globalize 1.x now follow UTS#35 and CLDR.