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Re: Unicode and Arabic
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Unicode and Arabic
- From: Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:19:03 +0100
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Salam,
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:40:37 +0000 (GMT), Muhammad Alkarouri
<malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
> > b. 'bidi at unicode dot org' - mail "ecartis at unicode dot org" with
> > the subject "subscribe bidi".
>
> Done - waiting for admins approval.
I have been on the bidi list for one week now. You'll probably get an
email from the list admin asking how did you know about the list and
what are your qualifications etc, before he accepts your subscription.
Sounds like a formality but I'm not really sure.
> I would add that we need to get more educated ourselves. We have some people
> who are 'in the know', so please give us some links. May be somebody adds a
> wiki page?
Can't agree more. It's a good start that 'we' subscribe to those
lists. But like I told Nadim on IRC, we more than ever need
specialists of the language and its history to join and not only
computer scientists. Please note that on their lists there are real
experts who have a background and access to documents etc. If you are
to discuss important topics (such as the directionality of
numbers...), you better first ask experts (and ulitmately ask them to
join the discussion). However, I presume there should be no real
problems in discussing technical details (first we need to get more
educated ourselves like Muhammad is noting).
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that linguists and such in the Arab
world don't have much access (or are not interested?) to those 'new
technology' topics. It's also scary that no Arab gov out there seem to
be interested either.
Anyway, there have already been some emails from experts on this list.
I hope they can join and give their input on the unicode lists too.
Also, we sure need someone or two with the required technical
knowledge volunteering to set up a wiki page. I suppose all the
knowledge is out there, so I guess a simple wiki page with links to
expalin where and how to start would be desirable.
Regards,
--
Youcef R. Rahal