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Re: Display hide a char ?
- To: developer at arabeyes dot org
- Subject: Re: Display hide a char ?
- From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:02:40 +0430 (IRST)
- Cc: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>, VIM Developers <vim-dev at vim dot org>
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ron Aaron wrote:
> >Everything related to Arabic is complicated ;-)
>
> :-! Much more so than Hebrew, which is complicated enough. Nadim, do you
> know if Farsi has different shaping rules? I think it might, which may
> complicate the innards of vim too.
[Wow! What an old message!]
No, the shaping rules are the same for all languages sharing the Arabic
script, and it is specified in the Unicode standard. A standard shaping
table can also be found at:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt
roozbeh