Re: akka works... now the questions!

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:29:27PM +0200, Alberto Corbi Bellot wrote:
> `sf (asif) Mohamed, akka now works perfectly... maybe i was doing
> something wrong... everything works just fine!

I apologize for the late response. Your email somehow slipped between the
cracks.

> 
> i just gotta sone questions... when you, for instance, write a text file
> in arabic using vim, joe or emacs while akka is activated, which
> enconding is used? i mean, will i be able to open than document in

Whatever encoding that specific editor uses. Akka does not decide that.

> bidi-openoffice or in any other arabic-ready text processor and read it
> as i were using joe/akka? 

Depends on 'joe's encodings ;) For example, vim supports utf-8, so the answer
would be yes. I'm not sure what 'joe' supports (I remember using that editor a
long long, looooong time ago).

> if you mix latin-enconding with arabic-enconding in a file, how akka
> knows were arabic starts and ends?

Akka uses FriBidi (http://fribidi.sf.net/) to make that decision.

> have you tried arabic with emacs? does bidi-openoffice works fine? are

The last I have heard of Arabic and Emacs is from this post:

http://www.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2002/June/msg00062.html

> there any other editors arabic-ready? aren't there any debian packages
> for arabic-vim?

No there isn't. I'm not sure what the status of VIM's patchs are. They have
been offered for download for a long time now, and VIM's author is well aware
of them but either has not gotten to them yet or has no interest in them.

We are not planning to provide packaged versions of vim with Arabic patches
anytime in the future (we prefer that VIM proper includes Arabeyes' patches).

> how do you type arabic? with an arabic keyboard?

I'm afraid that question is too vague for me to know how to answer ;)

> sorry for the time i take from you... and thanks beforehand!

Thanks for trying Akka :)
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