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Re: Summer of Code



On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:27:34PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:25:35PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:35:30AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:48:26PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > > > Some ideas (Dump off the top of my head. Might be completely nonsense):
> > > 
> > > Another idea that might be useful:
> > > * Adding Arabic normalization support to GTK search dialogs (is there
> > >   such thing?), or even other toolkits/UI and to utilities like "grep".
> > >   So that searching for محمد yields مُحَمّد as well, the same for ئ/يء,
> > >   ي/ى, ه/ة and so on.
> > 
> > I'd make that a separate library.
> > 
> > I started writing libarabic a few month ago but didn't complete it.
> > One of the problems was that I didn't find a standard on how to normalize Arabic.
> 
> I'd like to pick up this task (as a student) if someone will mentor me.
> 

Which task ?


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