Re: Open Issues & Todos

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Monday 24 November 2003 04:45, Nadim in his TODO_global wrote:
> Technical/Code Issues:
I want to post some comments here and add some issues here so that I can 
remove it from the MAPS page to make things more tidy.

>  - Free Fonts
>    + Need KACST to include the various changed from M.Yousif (Quran)
>    + Need a knowledgeable font designer to review Khotot project
+ Some characters are missing from Urdu Nastaliq Unicode, e.g. ALEF WITH HAMZA 
ABOVE (U+0623), YEH (U+064A), TEH MARBUTA (U+0629), ALEF MAKSURA (U+649), ... 
This font is a good font IMHO that worth looking at, and should be added to 
the khotot project.
+ Tashkeels (diacritics) should be consistent with the font. It's illogical to 
have The same diacritics dimensions for kacstposter and kacstdecorative as 
the ones for kacst-qr!!
+ The size of the kacst-qr font should be enlarge to conform with the other 
kacst font series. Now kacst-qr font is very small. In other words kacst-qr 
size 14 is much smaller than any Arabic font size 14. This has cause a 
problem in Mandrake for example because developers there can't go and test 
each font size separately for each language.



>  - Terminal Emulators
>    + Gnome-terminal: Need to include shaping
>    + Xterm: Need to include Bidi/shaping (already has utf-8 support)
>      (www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/xterm)
>    + Need to look into rxvt (does it have utf-8 support ?)
[munzir at localhost munzir]$ rxvt

==============================================
WARNING!!

rxvt is unable to display in UTF-8 encoding
you should use xterm instead
==============================================

>  - Quran Datafile
>    + Need an authority to verify data file's content and correctness
I can't understand this long-awaiting desire yet. How come you are trying to 
find an authority to verify a data that's not complete yet. Up to now, the 
font is not complete and even when it's completed, you need to implement all 
those Quran annotation signs in the data files before you even consider 
searching for the authority. I will try to help when there is something to be 
approved.


>  - Akka
>    + Need a complete rewrite of current project
>    + Need to reduce dependencies and code bloat
>    + Need to make it more portable (not only linux-centric)
>    + Need to look into the 'farsi' application as a possible replacement
+ Need to make it use configure (autoconf) if not already use, can any one say 
for sure.
+ Need to consider endianess and word size (that is: don't presupposing 32bit 
x86)
>    --> Involved:
>        = was    - Mohammed.Elzubeir
>        = was    - Samy.AlBahra
=is -Muhammad Alkarouri (even supplied a patch)

>  - LaTeX2HTML
>    + Add Arabic language (requires little Perl knowledge)
>    + Create a 'style' file like one of the packages in latex2html/styles/
Can you explain to me what's the problem  here. I tried it and it works!


>  - Office-related Apps
>    + Need DIA   localized
>    + Need Gaim  localizaed
I know that Gaim's .po files are already translated and you can type Arabic 
within it. What's the problem then? (shaping?)

>  - Children Games
>    + Find a list of viable games to include
+ Add the Arabic language to Ktouch. I think a typing tutor that supports 
Arabic is something very important to children and adults too.


>  - Shirts
>    + Need a means to print and distribute T-shirts with Arabeyes' logo
Are you serious ;) I ask for one in advance.



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