Re: BIDI tags Unicode values

[Alaa The Great <alaa at annosoor dot org>]

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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:52:44 -0500
Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:


> > [...]
> > want ba2 etc.
> > no imagine this scenario with me, you are somewhere abroad and you
> > want to send an Arabic email, easy just fins yourself a GNU/Linux
> > computer download katoob and you are writing Arabic, no matter
> > what the keyboard is and the current configuration for X is.
> 
> That is the case with VIM [w/ Arabic patch] and Yudit, AFAIK.
I know it isn't exactly a new feature but the possibilities it adds
are worth thinking about.
 
> > 
> > 2 export to HTML numerical character reference
> 
> I am not sure how useful this feature is (though I don't see any
> harm in adding it). It just seems to me that this would cause
> the person to have to use Katoob to edit the file in order
> to be able to read (in a human-readable manner) the numerical
> values.. correct me if I'm wrong.
yes you are correct, in fact it is not yet possible to edit it in
katoob, it is however a common way of making Arabic webpages (I just
discovered that we are required to use it at my college's student
projects for instance) so its a good idea to have it.
so the sensible thing to do is always keep a normally encoded version
and export the HTML style one when needed.


> 
> > BIDI support (where each line can have its own direction and BIDI
> > control characters are stored with the text).
> > 
> 
> Oh no! I implore you not to go that route. This is how Yudit does
> bidi support, which is the most primitive type of support possible.
> This is discouraged by the Unicode folks.. and by Arabeyes I might
> add ;)

I didn't know this, it was my request really, why is this a considered
a bad idea??
I mean what is the proper solution for a document that has both RTL
and LTR paragraphs??

so far katoob can work with only one direction at a time and the
direction is not hard coded at all in the document.

if there are any faults in katoob then I'm the  one to be blamed
(except maybe for segfaults :-)
anyway the purpose of my post was to encourage feedback so keep it
coming.

cheers,
Alaa
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