Re: my Bidi implementation

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- ahmad khalifa <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> ok, there is a big c file available on CVS...
> its my attempt at implementing minimum Bidi...

Great, the more people understanding (more fully) the Bidi algorithm
the better ;-)

> i tried it with putty, it seems to work correctly most of the time...

Could you please upload an .exe with your Bidi code embedded ?

> anyway, im still working on it, and debugging it... would be
> very helpfull if anybody could look at it and give me some feedback,
> on anything that i might have missed or done wrong...
> half the file is comments... every block of code has a comment
> stating the rule it applies..
>
> http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/external/putty/bidi.c

We have a few experts here (Behdad, Roozbeh, Dov) that certainly have
enough experience in this topic and I'm sure enough test files and
checks exist in their homedir to really be helpful :-)  Gentlemen ?

I also remember seeing a table (on unicode.org ?) that noted various
string tests and compared the output of various "popular" Bidi
implementations.  It would be wise to get a hold of those strings and
tests to run them through the new Bidi (have a name for it ?) stand-alone
(in concert with the .exe user testing) and compare your implementation
to others'.

I found this via google,

  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ucdata.html

Keep up the inspiring work going !!

Salam.

 - Nadim


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