On Friday 25 February 2005 11:42, Abdulhaq Lynch wrote: > 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 >
Looks great :-) > 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). > Does that mean that Qt 2.x.x have some support for Unicode? I didn't think it had such support. > 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. > There is a pending TODO item for this: http://www.arabeyes.org/viewtodo.php?todoid=157 But I didn't start working on it yet. > 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). > I'm very interested, please tell me if you need any help. -- Mohammed Yousif Egypt _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
