On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:02:55PM -0400, Khaled Hassounah wrote: > Somewhat late, but normalization is very important, especially that it > is important for search, etc. > > Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > I guess it can be done with hunspell using some Arabic specific custom code. > > I guess it has been done also. I have no idea whether this is doable with aspell or not. > > It has been done? anything re-usable? I don't really know details. M. Kebdani and Taha Zoroky should know more details. > > > > I've been searching for an Arabic normalization standard but I didn't find. Do you have > > any ? I'd really appreciate that. > > > > I don't, but this is mostly a matter of going through the different > possible characters and contexts in which they could exist. This is the > kind of thing where the arabeyes wiki would be instrumental. > > [hint] now if someone would create the page and allow people to > collaborate on filling it!!! hmmm... I googled and found an old email by M. Elzubeir: http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2002/November/msg00067.html I'll follow the steps there. -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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