Re: Arabic text entry

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- "Weaver, Dave" <davew at wsieurope dot com> wrote:
> One of my company's products is a specialised 3D graphics program; I have
> been asked to add some Arabic font support to the "text tool", to allow a
> client of ours to enter Arabic text into his graphics scenes.
>  
> Being a complete novice in the areas of Arabic, fonts, locales, unicode,
> etc., I feel as though I've been thrown in at the deep end, and would really
> appreciate some advice on how to go about acheiving my goal.
>  
> Can anyone point me in the right direction; where can I go for advice on
> adding Arabic text input into this software? What resources are available for
> a novice such as me?

This will really be hard to do without using or looking at the code in
question.  Else your best bet is to find something that uses the same
libraries that does have Arabic support to see how/what they've done to
get that functionality.

> I have been handed an Arabic keyboard, but don't even know how it's used in
> practice; how does one switch between Arabic text entry and the normal (to
> me!) Latin character set? (Does it depend on O/S?).

Some depend on the session manager (KDE/Gnome, etc), some on the application
other on flags within an application, etc.  Again, be specific with regards
what it is you are having a problem with else people will simply pass over
the ambiguity (you are highly advised to use mandrake 10.0 or better as it
has pretty good out-of-the-box Arabic support).

Salam.

 - Nadim


		
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