Re: Consensus on QAC

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <aalarfaj at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Excellent idea [getting a technical wordlist from the Spaniards]. We
> can put that on a wiki page but we also need it in .PO form. I dont
> read Spanish. Is there a PO available? If not, I'm afraid its back
> to the scripting board with Nadim! ;-)

Just let me know what needs to be done.

> Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com> wrote:
> > Take a look at http://www.c4arab.com/qamoos/index.php too.
>
> In its web form its not much use to us, except maybe for our
> translators, when they cannot find a certain term in our repo. We need
> some kind of file database that we can work with, and I dont know how
> willing they will be to give such a thing to us. If its not GPL we
> cant use it anyway... and even if it was its likely the Arabic will be
> encoded in CP-1256.

The encoding is not an issue at all ('iconv' will take care of things
very easily).  Someone should definitely contact the 'c4arab.com'
folks and ask them if it would be possible to get the dictionary
from them under GPL (or similar) terms.  Any takers ?

> I say skip the searching more part and contact the admin. Ask them if
> they have the database in some tangible file form (.po, XML, .dict, or
> whatever. I don't know what types of technologies are involved here).
> We (and by we I mean Nadim ;-) can create our own .po from whatever
> they have, if necessary.

It doesn't matter what format they'd be willing to give us the data
in as long as they're willing to share it and give us a GPL-like
license on it.  Whatever format they decide is good enough - let
this be a non-issue.

Salam.

 - Nadim



		
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