Arabize 0.1

[Ahmad Kamal <eng_ak at Link dot net>]

Dear all

     I have a written a new c++ program to join the Arabic programs
arsenal helping Linux users. The program is called "Arabize", it helps u
type Arabic quickly by using English keys (Transliteration for those 
familiar with the term), and converts them to true Arabic typing. The 
attached picture should be clearer.

I wish to host Arabize development at www.arabeyes.org. I was advised to 
 discuss it here with you. The project aims to be a standalone 
transliteration library and should also provide frontends (QT & CLI only 
for now, but probably GTK as well) to the library.

In the future, I will probably work on more integration, with desktop 
environments. I am thinking about integrating with klipper, so u copy n 
paste the text again, to find it transliterated. That way, it is almost 
transparent to the user.

Currently, ver-0.1 is ready. The basic library is ready and the QT 
version works. Please be noted though, that I cannot guarantee future 
development as I dont have as much free time as I'd like. But I 
definetly want to work on it.

One last thing, some people think transliteration is dead, and nearly 
everyone can type Arabic as fast as English! At least this really 
doesn't work for me, whenever I want to write more than one line of 
Arabic, I fire Arabize (the Win ver I wrote 4 years ago). Let me know 
what u think of transliteration.

Best regards