Hi, This is my great pleasure to announce on behalf of the Arabeyes project, the sudden release of BiCon "Is this the Fake Release or the One from Yesterday" 0.0.20040401.
Download -------- http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/arabeyes/bicon-0.0.20040401.tar.gz What is BiCon ------------- BiCon is the Bidirection Console layer, which allows you to read and write Arabic/Persian in the Linux console and other supported terminal emulators. If you feel like the functionality is familiar, you are right. BiCon is here to deprecate the old Akka, which itself used to deprecate ACon. BiCon is based on the old "farsi", a.k.a fcon code base from the FarsiWeb project. Since being blessed BiCon, the project calmly lives in the Arabeyes project: http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=BiCon Installation ------------ You need the FriBidi library to compile this program. Probably you have it in your distribution. If not, get it from http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/ Installation is simple, the usual steps: ./configure make make install Usage ----- This program currently can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with basic Unicode rendering support, like gnome-terminal, xterm, or PuTTY. Simply run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian. The language used is chosen according to the LANG environment variable. You can also choose the language country by specifying the country on the country on the command line, e.g :: bicon sa # enables Arabic (Saudi Arabia) support bicon ir # for Persian(Iran) Of course, you have a man page bicon(1) to check. In the Linux console, you can switch between English and Arabic/Persian keyboard by pressing Alt+Shift on the right half of your keyboard. To test that your BiCon is lighting the cold dark console up, do "cat testtext/hafez" and watch for a nicely rendered sonnet of Hafez. Reporting Bugs -------------- Please report all bugs to http://bugs.arabeyes.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/query.cgi Feedback at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also welcome. Cheers, Behdad Esfahbod Arabeyes Project http://www.arabeyes.org/ _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing