Re: Arabize 0.1

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

You do know, that there is a free utitlity (ok, it's for windows, but
nevertheless) floating in the internet, that does exactly that?

Here's the addresse:
www.basistech.com

i would say, you should look into it, before you do your own
transliteration tables. I think it's worth it.

cya..

omar


On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:16:19 +0200, Ahmad Kamal wrote:
> 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


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Omar Abo-Namous, merlin12345 at gmx dot de on 16.03.2004