Re: Vim-6.0 & Arabic

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> > Does Farsi use the same rules for letter shaping etc. as Arabic?
> 
> Very close to it -- the Farsi code in VIM currently is not Unicode compliant
> which gives them all sorts of "non-sanctioned" short-cuts that we, on Arabic,
> are NOT willing to take.  I know there are a few Farsi speakers on this list
> that might be interested in helping if enough progress is made.  The key as
> far as we're concerned is the display and typed/store arrays.

Just to note that Yousof Mortazavi <yousof at engsoc dot org> is working on Farsi 
VIM. I am not aware of the details, simply because I'm not a VIM user. I 
am sure he can help you...

roozbeh

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