Re: Arabic Keyboard Problem

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

At 12:00 ã 04/01/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:59:52 +0200
>  "Mohammed Yousif" <mhdyousif at gmx dot net> wrote:
> >
> > Well, we aren't related to microsoft, we want to do what we think is 
> right,
> > I mean I always get diappointed cuz of this bad arrangement of keys in
> > Microsoft Windows, and when I did that change I made it so when the user
> > type thal he get thal we can also put the less, greater chars anywhere
> > else may be in <BKSL> or something else that's less useless
> >
> [snip snip]
> >
> > the keyboard layout needs restructuring indeed :)
> >
> > but always remember that we are not working to make this keyboard layout
> > Microsoft compatible, we do just what we think is right and comfortable 
> for
> > all of us, (Microsoft is not standard to follow after all)
> >
> > but as this keyboard layout is for all of us not only for me, so if 
> isam and
> > others agrees with you, I would be happy to change it or you can do it
> > yourself
>
> Mohammed, please keep in mind that there are STANDARDS out there and that
> we MUST follow them (as ugly or illogical as they might seem - hopefully
> Arabeyes' existence now might start changing that attitude and might get
> involved in setting other Arabic standards (if there are any still left
> to set :-))
>
> With that said though - please note that we have agreed to use the Arabic
> microsoft keyboard encodings as a starting point (since it is indeed the
> most popular keyboard out there).

I don't know what you mean , you want the user to type 'thal' and get '\' 
instead! I don't.

> If you need to see more info on what that keyboard looks like, visit
>
>   http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/keyboards/arabic.html
>
> And for more information on this topic, you might want to look at
> what was done in relations to that in the recent vim work (note the
> 'arabic_iso-10646-1.vim' file)
>
>   http://www.arabeyes.org/cvsweb/projects/external/vim/
>
> Hope this issue is NOW settled (Isam, I believe in a previous post, notes
> the same stance).
>
> Regards & Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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Isam , now you changed your mind , don't you remember that YOU who said 
that the 'thal' should be put in its place not in the place for '\'

and when I did that now you just say that we must follow Microsoft rules !!!

ok , I don't like to type 'thal' and get '>' instead of it  just to make 
'Microsoft' the best
if you want to do that Isam (I mean swapping the 'thal' and the '\') , do 
it yourself , I'm not gonna make things I know it's no good.
sorry for that guys , but now you ask me to follow Microsoft rules and I 
don't like that
anyway it is up to you to do that or not , but in my slackware I do what I 
think is good not what Microsoft thinks is