Re: E D S for Abdulaziz

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 06:20 pm, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:
> --- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:

> By the way, as for gossip.HEAD.po, thanks for all the
> corrections and feedback. I've noticed a few
> inconsistencies (sp?) 

It takes someone sometime to guess that sp? stands for spell-checking 
errors ;)
So you are accused now of wasting my time thinking and wasting my time 
replying and still wasting more time to make the reply contains something 
useful ;)

> though. For one, I had 
> translated "nickname" as "laqab" but you saw fit to
> change it to "kinyah".

I strongly disagree with kinyah in favor of laqab. ln Arabic, lagab means any 
alias name which is exactly corresponds to nickname, but `kunyah' is a 
special type of names that begin with `Abu' or `Umm' like Abu Abdulrahman or 
Umm Abdulrahman. So, nickname _should_ be translated to lagab.


> Which brings me to my point. If kbabel's search has an
> option to ignore the accelerator mark, why stop there?
> Why shouldn't the option be to ignore any list of
> characters that the user selects? That way we can
> search for the word we want regardless of whether the
> person who typed it put harakat on it or not. I REALLY
> think this a very important issue. Can we file a bug
> report about this?

Yes! It's a good point. Just make sure when you file the bug to ask for a new 
option to ignore harakats and don't link it to the existing option of 
ignoring accelerators - they should be distinct.

> At any rate, I'll get to work on EDS right away, and
> also go over gossip one final time and see if there is
> any minor cosmetic work that needs to be done. Should
> I remove all the comments I added or keep them there

Keep up the good work!

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