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Re: arabic input methods again
- To: Alberto Corbi Bellot <alberto_corbi at terra dot es>
- Subject: Re: arabic input methods again
- From: Noah Levitt <nlevitt at columbia dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:58:01 -0400
- Cc: developer at arabeyes dot org, Arabeyes <general at arabeyes dot org>
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You'll want to use xkb for Arabic typing, not a gtk+ input
method. I don't know if a transliterated keymap exists or
not.
Noah
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 13:35:00 +0200, Alberto Corbi Bellot wrote:
> hi Noah (and arabeyes people)... my name is alberto, a spanish arabic
> student... i've recently come up with your gtk-im-extra page...
>
> http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/
>
> i've tried to compile the code but found no "configure" script and so
> on.
>
> i also wonder if i'll be able to type arabic or define my own input
> method for arabic. do you kown any input method for arabic? i've seen
> xcin or kinput2 work for japanesse. i'd like to use something like that
> for arabic.
>
> for the time being i use yudit (www.yudit.org). yudit is an unicode
> editor with beautiful input methods for many languages. you can also
> easily define yours in a couple o minutes if you want. i've defined one
> for me in order to type arabic with mnemotecnic key combinations (it is
> indeed the standard used by ArabTeX and for plain arabic
> transliteration).
>
> for example:
>
> "." + "h" gives "ح"
>
> "_" + "h" gives "خ"
>
> "'" + "a" gives "أ"
>
> the problem is that i always have to use yudit to type this way and then
> copy/paste to openoffice, abiword or gedit... it would be great to use
> my own input method on any gnome app. do you know how?
>
> any help appreciated.
> --
> Alberto Corbi Bellot <alberto_corbi at terra dot es>
>