RE: Arabize 0.1

["ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>]

> 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

im sorry, i dont want to sound rude, but i think that such an application
does no good for the arabic language, but only strengthens people's
dependance and attachment to foreign languages, while drawing them
away from the proper arabic language... kinda reminds me of that joke
about the queen of england changing the english alphabet to resemble
the german alphabet...

my apologies if anyone is offended by this, but its how i see this app...

ak.

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