Re: linux arabic standardization

[Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

Can you tell me what I have to say to Arabization.org.ma I'll conatct
them incha'allah by phone.


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:45:01 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli
<shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > > I think that I have to write a complete review of the arabization
> > > of the arabic desktop. For the link, the website is a bit broken,
> > >
> > >   http://www.arabization.org.ma/Dictionnaire.asp
> >
> > I don't know if you are also aware of the existence of the ALECSO
> > (google for it and search Arabeyes' website since there are a few
> > archived messages about it). It is the standardization organism of the
> > Arab league, they standardize translations of Technical/Scientific
> > terms among other things. I have two of their dictionaries.
> >
> > > The ALECSO web site points to Arabization.org.ma:
> > >   http://www.alecso.org.tn/arabe/db/databases.htm
> 
> With ALECSO and arabization.org.ma being related can we do the following
> (disregard QAC for now),
> 
>  1. Contact arabization.org.ma and tell them to fix their horrible
>     website (and have them move to UTF-8 from CP-1256 while at it :-)
>  2. Contact arabization.org.ma (or ALECSO) to introduce Arabeyes and
>     our collective work to them and have them take a look at our
>     EN->AR Wordlist [1]
>  3. Contact arabization.org.ma (or ALECSO) to see if they would be
>     willing to share their work with us under an open source license.
>     Emphasis on common goals, long-term benefits, etc, etc.
>  4. Talk in more detail on more extensive collaboration.
> 
> Chahibi, since you seem geographically close to them and are interested
> in the topic - could you (with assistance from anyone else of course,
> Youcef :-) look into this and bring it to a resolution.
> 
> Keep in mind too that the plan has always been to start an AR->EN Wordlist
> once the EN->AR Wordlist was completed (we needed the ability to generate
> a complete set of Arabic words and 'duali' [2] was noted as a possible
> avenue).
> 
> [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist
> [2] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Duali
> 
> Thanks & Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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