Re: Maps for Arabic and other semitic based scripts

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org>]

Hi,

Please use the latest fribidi release fribidi-0.10.0, it has lots of 
improvements.

And also about persian, please download the libfarsi snapshot from
http://bamdad.org/~behdad/download/farsi.tar.gz, you will find
everything you need for persian support there.

And about charsets, you can use iconv for encodings that fribidi does 
not support, the new fribidi has a configure time option 
--without-charsets, that causes command line tool to use iconv.

Yours,
behdad

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:

> Hi,
> In case there would be any echo...
> 
> Akka is complete, and it's a matter of days before I release test 1.0 (I
> have yet to test it on a PC for endian related issues, and understand
> how fribidi outputs visual to logical maps, so in fact it's a matter of
> a couple of hours of active work at most).
> Among other features, enhanced console tools compatibility and filters
> will allow users to set Akka for other languages or encodings.
> So this is a call for anyone who would want to make his
> language/favorite encoding based on Semitic scripts as part of the
> release defaults, in particular to our Pakistani, Iranian, (Afghan?),
> Turkish (Ottoman-writing) mates who would like to see their language
> supported in console mode.
> I haven't seen any Syriac or Phoenician console font around... It might
> be fun as well to create some since all semitic based-scripts are
> supported. fonter is a good program for editing console fonts. I also
> didn't search for a LUG in the Maldive Islands, bur it could be
> interesting to contact them since they now can use the text console as
> well in their script;)
> So if you are interested, please contact me, it's a matter of more or
> less 1/2 hour non-technical work to add a new language/encoding, so IT
> IS VERY EASY AND SHORT.
> Note that bidi approximation mode is only supported for those encodings
> that are supported by fribidi, other encodings will have to either
> provide conversion functions from enc->UCS4 and vice versa, or do
> without and use only RTL and LTR monodirectional modes.
> 
> Salaam,
> Chahine
> 
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Behdad
16 Dey 1380, 2002 Jan 6

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