Re: [putty]Bidi + PuTTY - done

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 12:56, Owen Dunn wrote:


> I disagree.  No matter how preferable UTF8 may be, some people will
> have Win1256, and PuTTY understands it _now_ as an encoding for
> incoming data.  In my view, all Arabic should be shaped and have the
> bidi algorithm applied to it, regardless of how it's encoded.
> 

I would have to agree with you there -- but Arabeyes.org will not put
any effort to make it easier for CP1256 users ;)


> That's a bit wordy.  If you look at our current copyright notice we
> just give names, and don't credit `minor assistance' (otherwise I'd be
> in there!).  If Arabeyes.org can live with it, I'd prefer just to list
> Ahmad Khalifa in the copyright notice.  Of course assistance from
> arabeyes.org will be noted in the release announcement of the first
> release to support bidi and Arabic shaping!

I would prefer something along the lines of: Ahmad Khalifa of the
Arabeyes.org project -- unless Ahmad himself finds this objectable.

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir