diff --git a/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian.txt b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian.txt
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index 0000000000..ecc7be8804
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+++ b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Category:Office
+License:Unknown
+Web Site:http://www.pedramhayati.com/2011/05/15/persianfarsi-language-for-android
+Source Code:https://github.com/pi3ch/persian_anysoftkeyboard
+Issue Tracker:https://github.com/pi3ch/persian_anysoftkeyboard/issues
+
+Name:AnySoftKeyboard: Persian
+Summary:Language pack for AnySoft keyboard
+Description:
+N.B You may need to install Persian fonts. This process would require root
+and is described on the website.
+
+* Full Persian keyboards
+* Farsi and Pinglish word suggestion and auto completion
+* Persian numbers
+
+Dictionaries are based on
+[http://ece.ut.ac.ir/dbrg/Hamshahri/download.html Hamshahri Corpus].
+.
+
+Repo Type:git
+Repo:https://github.com/pi3ch/persian_anysoftkeyboard
+
+#Uses old format, therefore we won't use ASK-API
+Build Version:20120613-persian-numbers,4,!no licence 5c341f2e73,patch=xml.patch;rules.patch,\
+srclibs=AnySoftKeyboardTools@73e9a09496,prebuild=\
+mkdir -p res/raw/ dict/ && rm -rf assets/ gen/ && \
+cp res/xml/pi.xml dict/words.xml && ant dict -f custom_rules.xml && \
+mv res/raw/words_1.dict words_2.dict && \
+cp res/xml/fa.xml dict/words.xml && ant dict -f custom_rules.xml && \
+rm dict/words.xml && mv words_2.dict res/raw/ 
+
+Auto Update Mode:None
+Update Check Mode:RepoManifest
+Current Version:20120613-persian-numbers
+Current Version Code:4
+
diff --git a/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/rules.patch b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/rules.patch
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/rules.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+diff --git a/custom_rules.xml b/custom_rules.xml
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..575a987
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/custom_rules.xml
+@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
++<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
++<project name="custom_rules" >
++    <target name="dict" >
++
++        <java
++            failonerror="true"
++            fork="true"
++            jar="../extlib/AnySoftKeyboardTools/makedict/makedict.jar" >
++        </java>
++    </target>
++
++</project>
diff --git a/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/xml.patch b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/xml.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d2a9ef019
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+++ b/metadata/com.anysoftkeyboard.languagepack.persian/xml.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+diff --git a/res/values/strings.xml b/res/values/strings.xml
+index c2b8920..57851ec 100755
+--- a/res/values/strings.xml
++++ b/res/values/strings.xml
+@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
+ <resources>
+     <string name="app_name">Persian for AnySoftKeyboard</string>
+     <string name="keyboard">Persian</string>
+-    <string name="dictionary">Persian</string>
++    <string name="farsi_dictionary">Farsi</string>
++    <string name="pinglish_dictionary">Pinglish</string>
+     <string name="pinglish_keyboard">Persian (Pinglish)</string>
+ </resources>
+diff --git a/res/xml/dictionaries.xml b/res/xml/dictionaries.xml
+index 48243b3..85bab61 100755
+--- a/res/xml/dictionaries.xml
++++ b/res/xml/dictionaries.xml
+@@ -4,23 +4,20 @@
+ 	id := a UUID (you may want to generate this using our simple Java program at:  /trunk/project/dict_creation (uuidgen_Windows.bat or uuidgen_Linux)
+ 	locale := a locate identifier for this dictionary. E.g., English will be en, Hebrew will be iw, etc.
+ 	nameResId := the resource Id which holds the name of the dictionary. See strings.xml.
+-	type := currently we only support binary dictionaries.
+-	dictionaryAssertName := the binary data holder
++	dictionaryResourceId := the binary data holder
+ 	description := some text you would like to add.
+ 	 -->
+ 	<Dictionary 
+ 		id="0fda79fb-45d6-4e98-b20c-b554bd0412df" 
+ 		locale="fa"
+-		nameResId="@string/dictionary" 
+-		type="binary" 
+-		dictionaryAssertName="fa_dict.mp3" 
++		nameResId="@string/farsi_dictionary" 
++		dictionaryResourceId="@raw/words_1" 
+ 		description="Persian common word from Hamshahri newspaper dataset"/>
+ 		
+ 	<Dictionary 
+-        id="634289ff-366c-4cd8-ab69-e8b0eab3fc25" 
+-        locale="pi"
+-        nameResId="@string/dictionary" 
+-        type="binary" 
+-        dictionaryAssertName="pi_dict.mp3" 
+-        description="Pinglish (Persian with English letters) common word from Hamshahri newspaper dataset"/>
+-</Dictionaries>
+\ No newline at end of file
++        	id="634289ff-366c-4cd8-ab69-e8b0eab3fc25" 
++        	locale="pi"
++        	nameResId="@string/pinglish_dictionary" 
++		dictionaryResourceId="@raw/words_2" 
++        	description="Pinglish (Persian with English letters) common word from Hamshahri newspaper dataset"/>
++</Dictionaries>