Komeil Bahmanpour
Encyclopedia
Komeil Bahmanpour is an Iran
ian programmer
, author
, and president and co-founder of Chortkeh.
eforms software company willing to open overseas subsidiaries for the purpose of Middle East
ern software development and marketing. The deal went on and Chortkeh —back then doing business as Chortkeh Rayaneh Hamrah, LLC —was established.
also managing development teams working on projects in different fields such as eforms conversion
, virtual printer
, object recognition
, barcode
, etc.
's Persian
ODP
, still maintaining its Persian portal
at Dmoz.ir.
He won the Best World/Farsi Editor at the 2004 ODP Autumn Editor Awards.
As the Persian ODP managaing editor, Bahmanpour was behind a big decision to change the URL
of the Persian ODP from Dmoz.org/World/Farsi/ into Dmoz.org/World/Persian/. Believing in the fact that employing Farsi instead of Persian across the English
Web
is betraying
Persian language, during a month-long discussion between him and the ODP meta editors, he persisted on replacing the transliterated
word Farsi with the more significant word Persian, but metas on the other hand precluded the change based on the assumption that URLs have been promoted for years, so it will not be a wise choice to change them. Eventually, in March 2007 the URL was changed.
s have always been his main interests. He has contributed to the development of the Unicode
Standard, especially in Arabic
, Persian
and Hebrew
languages. He also authored Chortkeh Font Toolbox, a font management software suite comprising the freeware
Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer since January 19, 2002.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian programmer
Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...
, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, and president and co-founder of Chortkeh.
Career
In 1999, Komeil Bahmanpour was introduced to an AmericanUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
eforms software company willing to open overseas subsidiaries for the purpose of Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
ern software development and marketing. The deal went on and Chortkeh —back then doing business as Chortkeh Rayaneh Hamrah, LLC —was established.
Chortkeh
He was assigned as the chief software architectSoftware architecture
The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both...
also managing development teams working on projects in different fields such as eforms conversion
Document conversion
Document conversion is the act of converting one document's format to another, which allows the document to be read in many more applications. Documents can be converted into* other source document formats* consumer formats* structured data- How it works :...
, virtual printer
Virtual printer
A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer....
, object recognition
Object recognition
Object recognition in computer vision is the task of finding a given object in an image or video sequence. Humans recognize a multitude of objects in images with little effort, despite the fact that the image of the objects may vary somewhat in different view points, in many different sizes / scale...
, barcode
Barcode
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1 dimensional . Later they evolved into rectangles,...
, etc.
Persian Open Directory Project
Since 2003, Komeil Bahmanpour has been the managing editor of NetscapeNetscape
Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...
's Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
ODP
Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project , also known as Dmoz , is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. It is owned by Netscape but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.ODP uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings...
, still maintaining its Persian portal
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....
at Dmoz.ir.
He won the Best World/Farsi Editor at the 2004 ODP Autumn Editor Awards.
As the Persian ODP managaing editor, Bahmanpour was behind a big decision to change the URL
Uniform Resource Locator
In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource....
of the Persian ODP from Dmoz.org/World/Farsi/ into Dmoz.org/World/Persian/. Believing in the fact that employing Farsi instead of Persian across the English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
Web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
is betraying
Betrayal
Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations...
Persian language, during a month-long discussion between him and the ODP meta editors, he persisted on replacing the transliterated
Transliteration
Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
word Farsi with the more significant word Persian, but metas on the other hand precluded the change based on the assumption that URLs have been promoted for years, so it will not be a wise choice to change them. Eventually, in March 2007 the URL was changed.
Unicode contribution
Multilingual software and fontFont
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...
s have always been his main interests. He has contributed to the development of the Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
Standard, especially in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
, Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
and Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
languages. He also authored Chortkeh Font Toolbox, a font management software suite comprising the freeware
Freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer since January 19, 2002.