You do know, that there is a free utitlity (ok, it's for windows, but nevertheless) floating in the internet, that does exactly that?
Here's the addresse: www.basistech.com i would say, you should look into it, before you do your own transliteration tables. I think it's worth it. cya.. omar On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:16:19 +0200, Ahmad Kamal wrote: > Dear all > > I have a written a new c++ program to join the Arabic programs > arsenal helping Linux users. The program is called "Arabize", it > helps u > type Arabic quickly by using English keys (Transliteration for those > familiar with the term), and converts them to true Arabic typing. > The > attached picture should be clearer. > > I wish to host Arabize development at www.arabeyes.org. I was > advised to > discuss it here with you. The project aims to be a standalone > transliteration library and should also provide frontends (QT & CLI > only > for now, but probably GTK as well) to the library. > > In the future, I will probably work on more integration, with > desktop > environments. I am thinking about integrating with klipper, so u > copy n > paste the text again, to find it transliterated. That way, it is > almost > transparent to the user. > > Currently, ver-0.1 is ready. The basic library is ready and the QT > version works. Please be noted though, that I cannot guarantee > future > development as I dont have as much free time as I'd like. But I > definetly want to work on it. > > One last thing, some people think transliteration is dead, and > nearly > everyone can type Arabic as fast as English! At least this really > doesn't work for me, whenever I want to write more than one line of > Arabic, I fire Arabize (the Win ver I wrote 4 years ago). Let me > know > what u think of transliteration. > > Best regards -- Omar Abo-Namous, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16.03.2004 _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
