Fwd: Re: Arabic gkb

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

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Subject: Re: Arabic gkb
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:51:45 -0300
From: Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>
To: Shooby Ban <shooby at gnome dot hu>

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 16:54, you wrote:
>  I'm happy to hear from you. I guess the easiest way to produce an
> xmodmap.ar to exec the command "xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.ar" when the arabic
> keyboard layout is active. Then you can make your changes, and be able to
> send me your final layout.

OK .. the current probelm with the Arabic Keymap and it will continue to
 exist is that it needs to hold the ALT key to write in the Arabic Keyboard
 .. without the ALT key it will be the standard Keyboard ..
I remember that the Same probelm was in kxkb but it got gixed .. something to
do with defining what langauges have ALTs or so :-) I am not very much intop
the code of either gkb or kxkb ..

Could you please look into it .. and I will look into the xmodmap.ar and try
to finalize it ..

>  I will put it into the next release, hopefully.
>
>  By the way you will have to search the characters you want in some unicode
> table, because in xmodmap.ar you will find some kind of unicode codes like
> "U0636".
>
>  I found a page
> (http://members.tripod.com/Adeveloper/ahowto/arabic-howto.html) in google,
> there is an arabic xmodmap, it contains numbers instead of Uxxxx.
>
>  Please check that xmodmap file, maybe you will have less work using it.
>
> ]  I contacted you before for adding the Arabic to Gnome KB .. it seems
> that ]that it is not as we expected .. the setxkbmap is nto functioning as
> ]required.. so I thought about creating a xmodmap.ar .. I reviewed some
> ]existing files.. it seems that it uses predefined names such as :
> ]Greek_zeta,Cyrillic_je, and so on .. so where are these symbols defined ?
> at ]compile time ? or there is another script to define them ?
> ]
> ]Thank you for your support
> ]
> ]
> ]
> ]

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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
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Arabeyes = Arabic + Linux
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-- 
Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
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Arabeyes = Arabic + Linux
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