Re: Arabic on Zaurus/Ipaq

[Arafat Medini <arafato at gmail dot com>]

Salam

Bicon? Take a look at it!
it would be great if we could interlink those two apps together! And
get your app on CVS!

Arafat

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:17:17 +0000, Abdulhaq Lynch
<al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk> wrote:
> On Friday 25 February 2005 15:28, Arafat Medini wrote:
> > Salam
> >
> > Nice stuff! Would you want to import this to our CVS servers? And
> > continue devon it? Someone of core, what do you think ? I think
> > importing such an interesting experiment would be really sweet!
> >
> 
> assalaamu `alaykum
> 
> It would certainly be helpful to put it on the CVS servers and also I'd like
> to put the OpenEmbedded font package somewhere too (easily ftp-able).
> 
> Can anyone suggest a simple GPL arabic shaping library in C/C++ to save me
> coding up YAASL (Yet Another Arabic Shaping Library). The simpler the better
> (as long as it works). I found the postgresql one which is OK but has extra
> UTF8 decoding gubbins and has pgsql-orientated data types. I just want the
> shaping and nothing but the shaping, preferably using a 'string' datatype.
> 
> I had a look at FriBidi for the bidi side and it seems to do an awful lot of
> things that I would have thought would be better left in the parent
> application - such as mapping mouse coordinates to characters, and encoding
> conversions. Is there a cut-down version that just reorders unicode
> characters? Memory space is at a very big premium for handhelds.
> 
> wassalaam
> abdulhaq
> 
> 
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