Re: Arabize 0.1

[Ahmad Kamal <eng_ak at Link dot net>]

Well this is really cool. I am not really sure if I am going to
continue the development of Arabize after the 'Input Method' was
written, or not. Anyway, it would be interesting if someone would
explain to me the rules with which a program can understand
transliterated words, for example 
'yaqumu' 

why shouldn't the program put a 'waw' after the 'meem'? What are the rules here? How can it understand this is 'tashkeel'?

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
>
> > I think you might consider the way ArabTex does it. For example, يقوم should
> > become 'yaqumu' and not 'yKom'... In other words, taking into account the
> > vowels, even if they're not explicitly written, is _very_ important.
> >   
>
> I second that.  That's indeed very very important.  I have such a
> scheme for Persian, called "faanoos".  It's implemented for
> Omega, the Unicode-aware TeX engine.