You'll want to use xkb for Arabic typing, not a gtk+ input method. I don't know if a transliterated keymap exists or not.
Noah On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 13:35:00 +0200, Alberto Corbi Bellot wrote: > hi Noah (and arabeyes people)... my name is alberto, a spanish arabic > student... i've recently come up with your gtk-im-extra page... > > http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/ > > i've tried to compile the code but found no "configure" script and so > on. > > i also wonder if i'll be able to type arabic or define my own input > method for arabic. do you kown any input method for arabic? i've seen > xcin or kinput2 work for japanesse. i'd like to use something like that > for arabic. > > for the time being i use yudit (www.yudit.org). yudit is an unicode > editor with beautiful input methods for many languages. you can also > easily define yours in a couple o minutes if you want. i've defined one > for me in order to type arabic with mnemotecnic key combinations (it is > indeed the standard used by ArabTeX and for plain arabic > transliteration). > > for example: > > "." + "h" gives "Ø" > > "_" + "h" gives "Ø" > > "'" + "a" gives "Ø" > > the problem is that i always have to use yudit to type this way and then > copy/paste to openoffice, abiword or gedit... it would be great to use > my own input method on any gnome app. do you know how? > > any help appreciated. > -- > Alberto Corbi Bellot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
