On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > BTW: do you think this little scipt is worth mentioning on CPAN (I'm not > familiar with their process). > > http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/tools/shape_bidi > > Thank again and keep those Arabic libraries coming.
Dear Nadim, thanks for your kind response. As to your script, I think it is in principle fine. I might have comments on the -- IMHO -- non-necessary conversions from characters to hexadecimal codes and back, but that should not be my point now. There already is a script of **similar** functionality on the web, although not at CPAN. It also derives the proper 'contextual letter shapes', but unlike shape_bidi, it reverses all data and also enforces more ligatures. Please, have a look at http://czyborra.com/arabjoin/. Maybe you and Roman could try to merge your scripts, making them probably a module for CPAN, something like Lingua::AR::???, for modules can be used from within other programs, of course. I will think of implementing the shaping also with Encode::Mapper, to explore its applicability ;) With best regards, Otakar Smrz > --- Otakar Smrz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > let me announce the CPAN release of the Encode::Arabic module for Perl > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-Arabic > > > > This programming tool is aimed at, but not limited to, the Natural > > Language Processing community of IT and Orientalists. People working in > > multi-lingual environments, students or natives may find it useful as > > well. _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
