On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:32:55PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:58:02PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > I just submitted a patch[1] that removes the various Lam-Alef presentation > > forms from Arabic keyboard layout, this should temporally fix the > > well-known lam-alef problem[2]. To avoid confusing the user, the b, > > shoft-b, shitf-g and shift-t keys in the Arabic keyboard (should produce > > لا, لآ, لأ and لإ respectively) will now produce nothing. > > > > 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13894 > > 2. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8195 > > > > No. I'm sure they are there for a reason even if we don't know what it is. > Isam Baiazidi was the one who added them. I'd rather ask him about the consequences > first before removing them. I know they are causing problems and I'm always implementing > workarounds for them but we need to know why were they added. > For whatever the reason, this shouldn't ever happened, presentation forms are here for computability with legacy systems and shouldn't be used to encode text, this is even discouraged[1] by Unicode standard. Even if we agreed on necessity of using them, then we will need 12 keys for them; 4 letters × 3 contextual forms, cause we are now just using one contextual form (isolated) for all cases, with is IMHO non-sense and is the source of the rendering problem. Having a separate key for Lam-Alef belongs to metal typesetting era and, for no good reason, it survived in the digital era. I can't see any good use for them, however, I had no idea who added them to ask. 1. http://unicode.org/faq/middleeast.html#0 -- Khaled
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