[suliman at alsamhan dot net: RE: Al-Katib experiments]

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

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From: "Suliman A. Al Samhan" <suliman at alsamhan dot net>
To: "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>
Subject: RE: Al-Katib experiments
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:02:03 +0300
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Alsalamo Alikom

  The problem number 2 and 3 is from QT. I modify this error and send it to
trolltech and they put it in thier CVS.
Number 1 is from the keymap.
  If you take a look, I made a lot of changes in the arabic keymap. In our
site we have a new version that fully support arabic letters and others like
kasrs,skoon and shadda and so on. Only the complex letters like lam_alef and
lam_alefwithhamza are missed in the keymap. I contact ali Albin who created
the keymap and he is happy with my changes.
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Regards,
Suliman..



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohammed Elzubeir [mailto:elzubeir at fakkir dot net]
> Sent: 26 August, 2001 09:52 PM
> To: doc at arabeyes dot org
> Cc: suliman at alsamhan dot net
> Subject: Al-Katib experiments
>
>
>
> I have been experimenting with Al-Katib lately, and here are the following
> problems I have encountered:
>
> 1. The latin character 'b' seems to have no corresponding Arabic
> character.
> 2. The Arabic letter 'teh' (or ta') changes to the letter 'beh'
> (or ba') once
> it is connected to any other character.
> 3. When you have 'alef' and 'lam' and want to add an 'alef' to
> them, it turns
> into a 'lam alef' (as in, 'LA') instead of ('ALA').
>
> I am not sure if this is related to Qt or the keyboard mapping, but
> some of them are definitely related to the xkb file.
>
> I wonder if anyone else has been trying to play with it. So far,
> this is our
> best bet at a text editor (that will compile on Linux and FreeBSD
> so far). It
> requries a little modification for FreeBSD, but it works.
>
> I'm currently writing a mini-HOWTO on installing it and making it
> work, and
> will create a binary distribution (with a statically linked Qt
> library) of it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

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