Re: Vim-6.0 & Arabic

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:55:26 +0330 (IRT)
 "Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh at sharif dot edu> wrote:
> 
> 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...

Yousof, I wanted to let you know that a few of us at arabeyes.org are
working on adding Arabic support to VIM-6.0 (a 'vi' clone) and we've
come very close to completing the initial task.  We would like to know
if you'd be interested in our work and in also combining our efforts
to completing this task thoroughly and promptly.

Short Status:
   + Able Read/Write UTF-8 files using ISO-8859-6 encoding
   + Shaping is 80% done - we await Bram's response on a question
     regarding code in screen.c (function - 'screen_line' line #3653)
     in which redrawing in "rightleft" mode is done from left-to-right
     (should be done in right-to-left).
   + Searching has NOT been looked into yet

I invite you to download the affected files either via CVSweb,

  http://www.arabeyes.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/arabeyes/vim/

or download the tar version of the affected files,

  http://www.arabeyes.org/~nadim/vim/vim-shaping.tar.gz

As always for project background and Arabic VIM addition thoughts visit,

  http://www.arabeyes.org/projects/vim.php


 - Nadim


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