Yeah great Idea I am all for it, updating the wiki will hopefully make my document more up to date and more complete! When I have some time again I'll restart work on it and that wiki page would be very helpful for this!
Arafat Am Samstag, den 04.12.2004, 00:19 -0800 schrieb Nadim Shaikli: > --- gar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are other areas where interested developers could no doubt > > use some help in defining Arabization requirements: > > > > 1. cursor behavior in editors > > 2. sorting > > 3. searching > > 4. managing diacritics > > 5. typesetting (e.g. don't break a line immediately after > > a copulative waw, how to best justify a line, etc.) > > 6. keyboard support > > etc. > > > > What I propose is that Arabeyes set up a wiki devoted solely to > > discussing and defining requirements. Possibly to include test cases > > where appropriate. The goal being that this would be a standard > > resource for anybody developing Arabic-enabled software, regardless of > > platform. > > I could NOT agree more. As noted the wiki page is there for anyone > and everyone to upkeep and add info to and start pages on (so help > yourself). Something very similar to what you note (or a subset at > least) is what Arafat has noted as the 'AIG' document. Its meant > to be a "what should I know in order to program for Arabic" type of > a document (from a GUI and user-interface point of view). What you > note above is alot more general and alot more thorough and we should > _absolutely_ go down this path. > > Specifically with regard to point-1 (its best to always number lists > for reference :-) Ahmad.Khalifa and I talked briefly about this topic > as did I with Shachar (of Wine fame) during our Evolution party [1] > (search for "edit control I mean"). We all kinda decided that we need > to write a spec about this topic to document what needs to be done > since a number of implementations are already out there and none of > them behave in the same manner. In short, its something we really > need to get busy on (when, I don't know). > > In short, do please start this wiki page and do please keep us honest > by reminding us and by stepping-in and leading where you can. Once > Mr. Khalifa (post 3 other tasks :-) and I get some breathing room I > really think we should tackle this or parts there-of ASAP. > > Anyone have ideas/comments or is looking to rush-in to help ? > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
