On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
We need a few heroes who start the TrueType equivalent of the Unifont and
misc-fixed projects.
There are already such heroes in the Omega project. I am eagerly waiting
for them to get completely open (there was a debate on the development
mechanism on
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
I hope that mlterm also takes into considerations the RTL (Right To
Left) languages. As far as I know these are Hebrew and Arabic.
Actually, BiDi (Bi Directional) might be more suitable then RTL in this
context since users of these languages do expect
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
I think that Roozbeh had these ISO 8859-6 characters in mind:
0xEBARABIC FATHATAN
0xECARABIC DAMMATAN
0xEDARABIC KASRATAN
0xEEARABIC FATHA
0xEFARABIC DAMMA
0xF0ARABIC KASRA
0xF1
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
But is it actually a farsi or an iranian keyboard ?
That is, it is a keyboard used only by people writting in Farsi language,
or the standard keyboard used by everyone in republic of Iran, to write
in Farsi or in any other language ?
That's an
On 14 Feb 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
Rewriting FriBidi under a different license should be no problem.
I'm not sure. The time needed for ensuring bidi compliance for something
written from scratch is more than you may think.
BTW, if you want an XFree compliant bidi implementation, do
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
Can we put all the technical issues on the table to have a go at it ?
There are certainly enough technically skilled people interested in making
this happen to where it just might become a reality given enough direction
from XFree proper on what is
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
But I'm a little confused, when roozbeh said about FSF codes, I
though that he means the autoconf and libtool stuff, but now you
say that xterm uses autoconf too, doesn't using autoconf and
libtool prevent it from being X compatible?
I was
On 26 Feb 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
- everyone appeared to agree that there's a need for BiDi at the
curses/slang level. This means that the terminal emulator-level BiDi,
if any, must be switchable. For some reason, nobody seems interested
in implementing BiDi at the
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Arash Zeini wrote:
In how far is the keyboard that you are talking about, different from the
patch I sent to XFree86 few weeks back?
Not much. The only real difference is use of 'Arabic_semicolon' instead of
0x100061B, and removal of modifier mappings (which should
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Baiju M wrote:
Locale for Malayalam is not available (I would like to make one,
can you give some pointer, how can I make a locale for Malayalam)
A specification for the format of a locale file is at:
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n897-14652w25.pdf
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Aryan Ameri wrote:
I noticed that the Farsi (fa-IR) keyboard layout that comes with the latest
version of XFree86 is a not a fully functional layout; I also checked your
CVS and the same applies to the layout in the CVS. The problem with this
keyboard is that the upper
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote:
Would be it safe to assume that those charactes should be assigned a
unicode codepoint instead of directly going to keysymdef.h? If
Arabic_comma is already defined as a keysym, should I ignore it and go
with its equivalent in Unicode?
I'd
A few of us are trying to revive a long dead channel on irc.gnome.org,
#unicode, first created by Robert Brady. We will appreciate some idle
loops of the guys interested in free software i18n spent there. The topic
is almost everything in i18n, but not translation.
Would you? (Well, it's just
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Markus Kuhn wrote:
I just read the meeting resolutions of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 2 WG 2 meeting
43, which happened in Tokyo, 2002-12-09/12. It was decided there
(resolution M12-02) that ISO/IEC 10646:2003 will be a single-part
standard, to be finalized by May 2003.
I was there.
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