Re: Arabize 0.1

[Ahmad Kamal <eng_ak at link dot net>]

Riyad Preukschas wrote:

> Assalamu Alaikum,

wa alykum al salam :)

> Great work!
> I like it.

Thnx a lot, finally someone likes it :)

> I think this is a good idea. For people like me who are not native 
> Arabic speakers/writers it is quite complicated to get used to the 
> Arabic writing (on PC) 

And for natives as well. It's been 6 computing years with me, and I am 
still a turtle ;) Problem is we rarely type in Arabic, but type in 
English daily


- mainly because there are more letters than in
> Latin based languages so you have to use keys for typing you normally 
> don't use.
> Another thing is, due to not having an Arabic keyboard I find it quite 
> difficult to remember a key's position, because the Arabic letter that 
> is assigned to a specific key has a totally different pronunciation than 
> the Latin one - this gets worse when they are close in the alphabet: l 
> -> MIM, k -> NUN .
>
> So go on.
>
>
> I found some transliterations which I think are not that intuitive.
> So here is my correction proposal:
>  q   -> QAF
>  j   -> JIM
>  g   -> GHAYN
>  KH  -> KHA
> (T'  -> DHA)
> (DH  -> DHAD)
> (A   -> ALIF MAKSURA)
> ((t) -> TA MARBUTA)

Well, not exactly the ones I use, but Arabize reads the transliteration 
tables from a TXT file, so u can easily define ur own mappings!

> I hope you find a way to enable harakat.
> maybe like this:
> \a    -> FATHA
> \A    -> FATHATAN
> \c    -> HAMZA
> \_c    -> HAMZA BOTTOM
> \i    -> KASSRA
> \I    -> KASSRATAN
> \o    -> SUKKUN
> \u    -> DHAMMA
> \U    -> DHAMMATAN
> \w    -> SHADDA

I am not sure how to write DHAMMA mathalan with the keyboard. But if 
it's a standard UTF8 char, then yes it can be added easily by just 
editing the TXT file I talked about as well, and define this mapping

> Salam,
>     Riyad Preukschas

regards

PS: If there are any other feature requests like that, let me know, and 
let me know where should I head in the future with arabize.

salam