This is just a heads-up to let you know that I've done a bit of work to enable arabic on the OpenEmbedded platform, such as OpenZaurus and Familiar for the Zaurus and Ipaq.
screenshot here: http://kprayertime.sourceforge.net/zaurus1.png It's early days, the program I have initially ported is my arabic vocabulary program (it can also create a postscript/pdf file in a book format of all the words). This is using PyQt and so far I have left the shaping and R-to-L code in python. To get the support for tashkeel (required for arabic learners) I had to hack the Qt/Embedded libraries as OpenEmbedded uses qte 2.3.10 (v3 is too big for handhelds, perhaps Qt/E 4 will be better). I have used the KacstBook font which had to be converted to a QPF font file format (bitmapped). Looking forward it would be nice to put the shaping/bidi code entirely into Qt/Embedded 2.3.10 and then to port Muhammad Yousif's qtquran. I'm mentioning it here to see if anyone else would have a use for arabic on this platform, otherwise I may leave things as they are (seeing as they do what I mainly want to do for now). wassalaam Abdulhaq
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