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Re: Summer of Code
- To: Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org>, Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Summer of Code
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:27:34 +0200
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:25:35PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> 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.
I'd like to pick up this task (as a student) if someone will mentor me.
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Khaled Hosny
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