--- Owen Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > --- Simon Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - It currently seems to me that bidi and shaping do not happen at > > > all if you're using a non-UTF-8 character set such as Win1256. > > > > I for one will advocate we not support CP-1256 (people should > > convert over all their data to UTF-8 _now_). We've worked VERY hard > > on getting people to lose the CP-1256 bad/nasty/stupid habit and so > > I'd suggest we simply forgo it completely. > > I disagree. No matter how preferable UTF8 may be, some people will > have Win1256, and PuTTY understands it _now_ as an encoding for > incoming data. In my view, all Arabic should be shaped and have the > bidi algorithm applied to it, regardless of how it's encoded.
Well if you have CP-1256 handy then chances are UTF-8 is available also if not then they should be using a real OS :-) --- ahmad khalifa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the effort isnt much, and i tend to agree with Owen. > if Arabeys.org doesnt support cp1256, who will ? Well the point we're kinda trying to make is that no one should. We would love to see CP-1256 simply die off completely. With that said, you are free to do as you see fit, but again I wouldn't make it easy for people to use a proprietary MS encoding especially when there is a fantastic replacement. This is all I will say on this topic (Ahmad, do as you see fit - I think we've made our point :-). > > Ahmad Khalifa did 99.9% of the work (there is some shaping code that > > others contributed to in the past as noted in the shaping section). > > I'd suggest something along the lines of "Ahmad Khalifa contributed > > the majority of the Bidi and supporting Arabic code with some minor > > assistance from various Arabeyes.org volunteers and coders". > > That's a bit wordy. If you look at our current copyright notice we > just give names, and don't credit `minor assistance' (otherwise I'd be > in there!). If Arabeyes.org can live with it, I'd prefer just to list > Ahmad Khalifa in the copyright notice. Of course assistance from > arabeyes.org will be noted in the release announcement of the first > release to support bidi and Arabic shaping! How about what Elzubeir noted, "Ahmad Khalifa (Arabeyes.org project)" ? Regards, - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
