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Re: My next Arabeyes projects...



Mohammed Elzubeir a *crit :

> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:28:23PM +0100, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:
> >
> > - Teach Your Kids Arabix (TYKA)
> > the reason I keep bringing in kids is because I know their situation
> > concerning Arabic support in my real life. In Tunisia like in most Arab
> > countries computerization is limited. It happens that many (7-8 on a
> > nearly daily basis during summer) of my little neighbors often come at
> [..]
> > immediately feasible.
> >
>
> Sounds interesting, but not relevant to Arabeyes immediate needs. As Nadim
> has pointed out earlier, we are not done with the basics of arabic
> support yet -- it is not time to move to those types of projects yet. Although
> it certainly sounds interesting.
>
> In other words, I would list this all the way at the bottom of our priorities
> list.

I agree with both you and Nadim.
That said, all I'm asking for right now is:
a subdomain, and a contact address (that points to core, me or you and me for
example...)
I will set up a page explaining the project (ok, we might need a logo as well).
This is insignificant in term of work done, and won't divert effort from the
rest...

>
>
> >
> > - Reverse Bidi Specs and implementation in Fribidi or in a standalone
> > library.
> > This is REQUIRED for reading monodirectional Arabic text in bidi
> > applications. I will have to go through testing ICU, using it as an
> > inspiration for specifying a clean Reverse Bidi algorithm, and suggest
> > an implementation as part of Fribidi or as a standalone library.
> >
>
> All of the above (that I deleted) should be part of the second phase, but
> we are still on the first phase. With the exception of the reverse bidi,
> which imho, should be part of the list right now.

I will check as per Nadim's request the thing about XFree86 and see what is that
tempts me more (sorry, I didn't have time to do it yet Nadim). I will either do
the bidi thing next, or the XFree86 then. (setting up one page for TYKA wouldn't
divert my efforts on any of these;))

>
>
> >
> > Isam, Mohamed, still waiting for your keyboard layouts (standard pc105
> > US QWERTY?), I will assume you are using consolechars since it's the
> > font setter that has been used for some time now. Don't worry, it'll
> > only take you a few minutes to test...
>
> Chahine, you know I'm on FreeBSD all the time. I don't know what I set
> arabeyes.org anymore. But, in any case, I have a standard US-101 keyboard.

Forgot to change the keycodes. In any case, it'll be easy. FreeBSD's compilation
should run fine to the extent that a Linux x86's version runs fine provided you
use the BSD tools for managing fonts and keyboard layouts in the configuration
files (and in config.h at compile time).