Re: Submitted papers

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

Yes, the issue has been discussed with other people using other Semitic based
language. For non Hebrew users, the problem is not really important since 1)
what is done on Arabization benefits every Arabic-based language 2) non Hebrew
and non Arabic scripts are so little used for now that any work done is what
will actually define how things will work.
Now, with Hebrew users, the some feedback we got wasn't very enthusiastic about
the idea indeed. The main disagreement is about Hebrew users wanting to stick
to the already defined standards (which isn't a bad thing in itself), and the
Arabeyes people who are more into making one minor change to the bidi standard
which would allow us to benefit from thousands of programs in a raw without a
single line of code added to the existing programs and without any overhead or
addition of complexity.
If we still keep parting direction, we will indeed have two different bidi
algorithms. IMHO, even though it would be better to have one only algorithm,
it's not that important, as the algorithm would just be language dependent, and
the pros of getting all these thousands of existing programs at once is more
important that the cons of having two bidi algos or being slightly different
from what the unicode consortium has defined.

David Starner wrote:

> From: "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
> > I have submitted earlier today two papers to the Linux Arabization
> > Workshop, which are available on the main page. They are both 
> > available in html and pdf  format for your reading and printing
> > pleasures ;)
>
> I'm curious about the bidirectional article. Has anyone talked to people who
> use a non-Arabic RTL language about the ideas? That is, other languages
> (Persian, etc.) using the Arabic script, Hebrew, Syriac, and Dhivehi (uses
> the Thanna script)? Hebrew users are the other big RTL users, both
> commericially and active in the Open Source world - if Hebrew users chose
> another bidirectional system, you could easily get to the point where half
> the systems use one bidi sytem and half the other, messing with any attempt
> at reliable RTL/bidi use.
>
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