Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:34:40AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:23:05 -0600, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arabic index entries are all listed under "unknown" instead of its
>>>> respective Arabic letters. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a
>>>> misconfiguration from my side. See the attached example.
>>> We need to include arabic-farsi-urdu etc. databases in the distro. If Hans
>>> can tell us what file to emulate/edit etc....
>> first we need to discuss the logic ... say that we have a sequence of
>> chars ... do we need to erase the vowels? etc
>
> Erase vowels as in not counting them? Then yes we should only respect
> full letters. We might need also need to strip the Arabic definite
> article "ال", but this will be tricky since there are words that start
> with it. May be we better have syntax like \index[a]{entry} where this
> entry will be under "a", or we already have this?
you can provide an optional sort key indeed
Hans
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