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Re: Summer of Code



On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:35:30AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:48:26PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > Some ideas (Dump off the top of my head. Might be completely nonsense):
> 
> Another idea that might be useful:
> * Adding Arabic normalization support to GTK search dialogs (is there
>   such thing?), or even other toolkits/UI and to utilities like "grep".
>   So that searching for محمد yields مُحَمّد as well, the same for ئ/يء,
>   ي/ى, ه/ة and so on.

I'd make that a separate library.

I started writing libarabic a few month ago but didn't complete it.
One of the problems was that I didn't find a standard on how to normalize Arabic.


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