Julian Gardner wrote:
> I have just finished the implememntion of Arabic (06XX range) and the
> customer has now told me I need to get the joined arabic
> (FEXX) working.
> I have bought the book and trawled through numerous websites
> looking for
> information (source) on how the system works.
If you have read Chapter 8
(http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch08.pdf) and/or an introduction to
Arabic, you should have most of the information you need.
> Can somebody give me directions to either code or a really good
> description of this algorithm?
AFAIK, there is no description at all of the algorithm, apart what you read
in Chapter 8.
Roman Czyborra has a Perl implementation that could serve you as a base:
http://czyborra.com/arabjoin/
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