Re: linux arabic standardization

[Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

السلام عليكم

I asked my sister , who studies in Rabat, to go to the مكتب نتسيق
التعريب BCA and discuss face-to-face with them. Because she loves
Linux, she told that it was OK but in the next-week because she has to
do her exams. She told me that she will contact them by phone إن شاء
الله and have an appointement. But the only problem I have is that I
must know more about the problem and have clear documents about this.


Do you know Hani Bakir ? He's responsible of the AlKhawareezmi Projet
and I read that he participated in arabization in Life Makers web
magazine #1 ( Amrkhaled.net ) , do you think  he can help us ?

http://www.unicode.org/charts/ : 
What's the problem with arabic and presentation of Qur'an ?


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:44:53 +0000, Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Is there more interesting about Arabeyes ( Goals, creation, issues,
> support, ... )
> This may help , please send me this before Monday إن شاء الله. I can't
> contact them in the week-end, I am a little busy so please excuse me.
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:04:08 -0800 (PST), Nadim Shaikli
> <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > --- Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > > Can you tell me what I have to say to Arabization.org.ma I'll contact
> > > them incha'allah by phone.
> >
> > The four point below are a good start.  You can also tell them about
> > Arabeyes and the work that has been done (did I say 87,000 words in
> > our general dictionary translated along with numerous (don't have a
> > count, but can get one) strings in various projects (gnome, kde,
> > debian, etc)).  What needs to be noted is that we are serious about
> > the work and we are doing all of this for __FREE__.  They should also
> > note that we don't have any agendas and are here simply due to our
> > love to the Arabic language and its culture, etc.  You might want to
> > get more familiar with Arabeyes and its history (3+ years) to really
> > instill our commitment and work ethic to 'em.
> >
> > > >  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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Wordlist
> >
> > You might also want to tell them that we have more grand plans (like
> > an Arabic->English dictionary, automatic sentence/paragraph translators,
> > etc) and we are looking for assistance and since they are the ultimate
> > authority we most certainly would like to have better communication and
> > more involvement.  Our goals, from what I saw, seem to be related and
> > so it would be best to work together.
> >
> > We also have a number of Unicode.org issues with which we would like their
> > opinion and involvement on.  Here are some sample pleas for help [2][3].
> >
> > [2] http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/unicode/unicode_help_en.pdf
> > [3] http://arabeyes.org/~nadim/unicode/unicode_help_ar.pdf
> >
> > Hope that helps and keep us all posted on what happens (this might take
> > some time, so don't rush and don't be abrasive or abusive - try to set
> > a face-to-face meeting with them to convey all these ideas/points).
> >
> > Salam.
> >
> >  - Nadim
> >
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