--- Ron Ravid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope you don`t mind getting this bothering massage.
I almost never answer private emails now (I'm CC'ing Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list). Keep in mind future private exchanges won't be replied-to. > I wish to add Arabic support to some device that I work with. I > already added Hebrew support. now I wish to add support for Arabic. > I will try to start with a map of this letter: > > - My background and situation. > - My resources > - What I need > > My background and situation. > ===================== > There is a Tool that is used to help in repairs. I translated it from > English into Hebrew. Now I wish to to make a translation from English > to Arabic. I do not know much of Arabic (back then in school I was too > lazy), but I remember the basics. The translation itself will be done > by one of my Arab friends. All I have to do is to convert the > translated files. The tool only display text, no writing in Arabic is > needed. So all I need is to find a standard map of Arabic fonts, That > includes all the shapes of every letter. Then I can finish a > conversion program. The Program take the normal output of notepad with > stand-alone only, and convert the codes to the relevant form (initial, > medial, final or stand-alone) > In addition I have to get the font for it (Bitmap font) I hope the tool you mention above is under open source license :-) > My resources: > ========= > - Windows 98 in Arabic - useful to understand the editor and save formats > - File Arabi.com - allow to use Arabic on any computer with dos. If I > had document with it`s font map i might be able to use it. > - code page 864 files and Kostis Character Encoding Tools. The only encodings we support/use/condone is UTF-8 and alot of us are not windows users and those that venture on it don't do any development work there. To convert your files use 'iconv'. > What I need: > ========= > - Arabic bitmap font 8*16 (8*8 and 16*16 will be useful too) See if there is something you can use (to convert from) from our khotot project [1]. > - Arabic text editor that can save in the displayed format instead of > the "stand-alone letter codes only". This is a hack that you are not likely to find support for since it goes against almost everything we've been forced/taught to do. Do look into the following editors though (they might help), - http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html - http://www.towo.net/mined > OR > Information needed to do this conversion by myself. You can enter the actual glyph codes using say vim (do ':help' within vim) using unicode's charts [2] as a guide. I'm also sure there is an easier way to do this, I simply don't know of any readily. You should really get the tool you are dealing with properly localized using GNU's very popular gettext tools [3] (that is what ~90% of the open source applications are using). [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot [2] http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE70.pdf [3] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html Regards, - Nadim __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest
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