On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 08:29, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- "Weaver, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the right direction; where can I go for advice on > > adding Arabic text input into this software? What resources are available > > for > > a novice such as me? > > This will really be hard to do without using or looking at the code in > question. Else your best bet is to find something that uses the same > libraries that does have Arabic support to see how/what they've done to > get that functionality.
The application uses OpenMotif 2.2.3, using XmCreateTextField() to create the actual widget. Somehow I need to 'tweak' the code to enable Arabic input. Unfortunately Motif isn't my area of expertise and I've been unable to find documentation to help me get right-to-left input working. I've discovered Fribidi, and suspect this will help, but integrating it with the Motif text widget looks like being a challenge. To complicate matters, the text input widget is currently 'ignoring' any Arabic characters I type. Are there any Motif programmers here that can offer me any advice on where I need to look to deal with right-to-left text input? > > > I have been handed an Arabic keyboard, but don't even know how it's used in > > practice; how does one switch between Arabic text entry and the normal (to > > me!) Latin character set? (Does it depend on O/S?). > > Some depend on the session manager (KDE/Gnome, etc), some on the application > other on flags within an application, etc. My development environment is KDE, and I have enabled Arabic input from within KDE. I have also changed my locale to "ar_QA.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n (this is a RedHat EL 3.0 based system). I can now toggle between Arabic & English input using an icon in the system tray. The final environment will be IceWM - I've yet to experiment in this environment. Thank you very much for your help - much appreciated, Dave.
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