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Fwd: Re: xiterm-0.4 & arabic



FYI - of interest is 'IIIMF'.

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At Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:52:09 -0800 (PST),
Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> Well, the combining character (from the screenshot that you'd mailed)
> seemed to completely disappear when it's in RTL.  In short, combining
> might are indeed not functional, but it seems like you are missing
> those "harakat" characters even in Right-To-Left (RTL) mode as compared
> to LTR.

 Yeah,  Logically the combining character is in the string, but
OutputMethod will remove the character when it is the first character
of the line or so :-(, I guess.

> I briefly looked at IIIMF, and I can't see that it will be of use
> (didn't see any arabic mention), but if you get it to work, I'd be
> very interested in hearing what you did.

 Well, IIIMF itself is not for specific language, but has potential
to input any languages simultaneously.
 On my environment, I can switch Arabic keyboard mode.  On that mode when
I type 'g', 'LAM(U+0644)' will appear.  Then type 'h', which is 
'ALEPH(U+0627)',  LAM ALEPH ligature(U+FEFB) will appear on the command 
line.  Of course logically it is sequence of 'LAM', 'ALEPH' :-).
 I can continuously input Cyrillic/Greek/Hebrew/Japanese/Chinese ... 
just switch the input mode.

 Regards,
-- 
Jiro SEKIBA | AP Linux Technology Center, Yamato Software Lab., IBM Japan
            | email: jir at yamato dot ibm dot com, jir at li18nux dot org

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