VIM Arabic Patch and Hindi number

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Salam, 
	Nadim, I got two suggestions and points about the VIM Arabic support that I 
would like to share with everyone to see their feedback ..
	- VIM uses the Hindi digits ( Used in Arabic countries) and saves them to 
memory and disk .. that is because the keymap file is the one responsable for 
returning the code of the Hindi Digit .. I suggest having the numbers stored 
in the memory and file as they are always are in the ASCII code of it, and 
make showing the Hindi Digit part of the shaping .. meaning that the digit 
'1' that have the code of 0x031 , but when it is shaped, and we are in the 
'arabic' mode ( 'set arabic' is on), then '1' will be shown as 0x0661 , and 
that is the Hindi Digit of '1' .. Now why I think it should be that way, 
because infact, the Hindi digits represent the Numbers the same way the 
Arabic digits do.. and making them have unified memory/disk representation 
will ease up searching/replacing and any other operations that find numbers.

NOTE:  	Hindi Digits are 	: ( ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ ٠ )
	Arabic Digits are	: (  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 )

	- Another Question that I had, I know that VIM has it's own Keymap files, 
but as X have the keymaps defined ( in xkb) the keymap in VIM will not be as 
needed , right ? besides, if we keep the X keymap file the centralized place 
for the keymap issues that will ease up any fix/updates that we may do in the 
future. 

What do you think ?

I had been using VIM in Arabic for the past 1-2 months, and I can say that it 
is the best thing that happened for the past 6 months :-) I am using it for 
all the Arabic editing I need .. and it is GREAT :-) the one 'already known' 
missing point is the BIDI .. and I hope that Bram will consider it soon..


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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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