Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
..
So, it is a big task to educate people on all of this issues to get it
all right.
You can say that again. Really, a lot of translation of technical stuff
needs to be done. That will take a while.
me. Anyway, I'm curious, what are you trying to achieve with this
thing? Seems to me a very ambitious goal, which even I don't have. My
Who knows? If you do, please let me know!
Actually a couple of things. I got started with the whole thing when I
first learned SGML and realized immediately how it could be used to
create hyperlinked Arabic texts, which would make learning Arabic much
easier. (This was before the web). Then I got into typesetting for a
while, and finally Unicode. I saw with Unicode that Arabic wasn't
handled very well so I started thinking about how to do it right. That
turned out to be very interesting and intellectually challenging -
linguistics, math, computation, lots of stuff. I ended up thinking in
terms of "if computation had been invented in Cairo or Damascus, what
would text encoding look like?" Also trying to make a good latin-1
transliteration was a challenge. I'd also like to demonstrate somehow
that Bidi is not necessary for Arabic, because it would be a lot easier
to add Arabic support to existing software without bidi.
So I guess the short answer is: I like the challenge of designing an
encoding and articulating the theoretical principles behind it (how it
relates to written language, etc.) I also would like to do on the
computer what I can do on paper, e.g. search based on root.
-gregg
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