Re: Arabization requirements

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Yeah great Idea I am all for it, updating the wiki will hopefully make
my document more up to date and more complete! 
When I have some time again I'll restart work on it and that wiki page
would be very helpful for this!

Arafat

Am Samstag, den 04.12.2004, 00:19 -0800 schrieb Nadim Shaikli:
> --- gar <gar at arabink dot com> wrote:
> > There are other areas where interested developers could no doubt
> > use some help in defining Arabization requirements:
> > 
> > 1. cursor behavior in editors
> > 2. sorting
> > 3. searching
> > 4. managing diacritics
> > 5. typesetting (e.g. don't break a line immediately after
> >    a copulative waw, how to best justify a line, etc.)
> > 6. keyboard support
> > etc.
> > 
> > What I propose is that Arabeyes set up a wiki devoted solely to 
> > discussing and defining requirements.  Possibly to include test cases 
> > where appropriate.  The goal being that this would be a standard 
> > resource for anybody developing Arabic-enabled software, regardless of 
> > platform.
> 
> I could NOT agree more.  As noted the wiki page is there for anyone
> and everyone to upkeep and add info to and start pages on (so help
> yourself).  Something very similar to what you note (or a subset at
> least) is what Arafat has noted as the 'AIG' document.  Its meant
> to be a "what should I know in order to program for Arabic" type of
> a document (from a GUI and user-interface point of view).  What you
> note above is alot more general and alot more thorough and we should
> _absolutely_ go down this path.
> 
> Specifically with regard to point-1 (its best to always number lists
> for reference :-) Ahmad.Khalifa and I talked briefly about this topic
> as did I with Shachar (of Wine fame) during our Evolution party [1]
> (search for "edit control I mean").  We all kinda decided that we need
> to write a spec about this topic to document what needs to be done
> since a number of implementations are already out there and none of
> them behave in the same manner.  In short, its something we really
> need to get busy on (when, I don't know).
> 
> In short, do please start this wiki page and do please keep us honest
> by reminding us and by stepping-in and leading where you can.  Once
> Mr. Khalifa (post 3 other tasks :-) and I get some breathing room I
> really think we should tackle this or parts there-of ASAP.
> 
> Anyone have ideas/comments or is looking to rush-in to help ?
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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