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Arabic text entry
- To: <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Arabic text entry
- From: "Weaver, Dave" <davew at wsieurope dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:35:04 -0500
- Thread-index: AcU0+bE0pwp+WA3qRQyeODyJ1gBv/g==
- Thread-topic: Arabic text entry
Greetings,
I hope I have come to the right place to ask my
initial questions...
One of my company's products is a specialised 3D
graphics program; I have been asked to add some Arabic font support to the "text
tool", to allow a client of ours to enter Arabic text into his graphics
scenes.
Being a complete novice in the areas of Arabic,
fonts, locales, unicode, etc., I feel as though I've been thrown in at the deep
end, and would really appreciate some advice on how to go about
acheiving my goal.
Can anyone point me in the right direction; where
can I go for advice on adding Arabic text input into this software? What
resources are available for a novice such as me?
If it's relevant, the software runs
on Linux (RHEL 3.0), uses the standard X
widget set (I think - I'm not overly familiar with the software
either!), and does use Unicode at some level under the hood (although
currently not at the text entr level). OpenGL, Inventor, and TrueType fonts are
used internally.
I have been handed an Arabic keyboard, but don't
even know how it's used in practice; how does one switch between Arabic text
entry and the normal (to me!) Latin character set? (Does it depend on
O/S?).
Many thanks in advance for any help,
Regards,
Dave Weaver.