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- Subject: [li18nux-utildev:00032] Re: xiterm-0.4 & arabic
- From: Jiro SEKIBA <jir at yamato dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:15:50 +0900
- User-agent: Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.4 (Kashiharajingū-mae) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)
At Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:52:09 -0800 (PST),
Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Well, the combining character (from the screenshot that you'd mailed)
> seemed to completely disappear when it's in RTL. In short, combining
> might are indeed not functional, but it seems like you are missing
> those "harakat" characters even in Right-To-Left (RTL) mode as compared
> to LTR.
Yeah, Logically the combining character is in the string, but
OutputMethod will remove the character when it is the first character
of the line or so :-(, I guess.
> I briefly looked at IIIMF, and I can't see that it will be of use
> (didn't see any arabic mention), but if you get it to work, I'd be
> very interested in hearing what you did.
Well, IIIMF itself is not for specific language, but has potential
to input any languages simultaneously.
On my environment, I can switch Arabic keyboard mode. On that mode when
I type 'g', 'LAM(U+0644)' will appear. Then type 'h', which is
'ALEPH(U+0627)', LAM ALEPH ligature(U+FEFB) will appear on the command
line. Of course logically it is sequence of 'LAM', 'ALEPH' :-).
I can continuously input Cyrillic/Greek/Hebrew/Japanese/Chinese ...
just switch the input mode.
Regards,
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Jiro SEKIBA | AP Linux Technology Center, Yamato Software Lab., IBM Japan
| email: jir at yamato dot ibm dot com, jir at li18nux dot org
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