Salam, On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:40:37 +0000 (GMT), Muhammad Alkarouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > b. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - mail "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with > > the subject "subscribe bidi". > > Done - waiting for admins approval. I have been on the bidi list for one week now. You'll probably get an email from the list admin asking how did you know about the list and what are your qualifications etc, before he accepts your subscription. Sounds like a formality but I'm not really sure. > I would add that we need to get more educated ourselves. We have some people > who are 'in the know', so please give us some links. May be somebody adds a > wiki page? Can't agree more. It's a good start that 'we' subscribe to those lists. But like I told Nadim on IRC, we more than ever need specialists of the language and its history to join and not only computer scientists. Please note that on their lists there are real experts who have a background and access to documents etc. If you are to discuss important topics (such as the directionality of numbers...), you better first ask experts (and ulitmately ask them to join the discussion). However, I presume there should be no real problems in discussing technical details (first we need to get more educated ourselves like Muhammad is noting). I may be wrong, but it seems to me that linguists and such in the Arab world don't have much access (or are not interested?) to those 'new technology' topics. It's also scary that no Arab gov out there seem to be interested either. Anyway, there have already been some emails from experts on this list. I hope they can join and give their input on the unicode lists too. Also, we sure need someone or two with the required technical knowledge volunteering to set up a wiki page. I suppose all the knowledge is out there, so I guess a simple wiki page with links to expalin where and how to start would be desirable. Regards, -- Youcef R. Rahal _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
