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- To: "Ahmad A. Ibrahim" <ai@teknet.co.uk>, cata@netscape.com, erik@netscape.com
- Subject: Re: Adding Arabic Character Sets
- From: ftang@netscape.com (Yung-Fong Tang)
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:06:26 -0700
- CC: mozilla-i18n@mozilla.org
- Organization: Netscape Communication Corp
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Please reply all your bidi related issue to me, cata and erik.
Do you want to merge the diff into mozilla to enable Arabic instead of write your own code ? Take a look at http://people.netscape.com/cata/i18n/index.html and Arabic and Hebrew (Bi-Di) Enabling ( http://www.langbox.com/AraMosaic/mozilla/ ) Let erik know if you want to help.
Take a look at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/i18n/schedule.html also.
We definitely need a lot of help.Ahmad A. Ibrahim wrote:
Hi Yunf-Fong,I have now successfully added both ISO-8859-6 and Windows-CP-1256 Arabic character sets to mozilla, and am now working on BiDi implementation.
Your instructions on adding a new character set have helpped a lot, but they are missing a lot. Never the less, thanks for a good effort ;-)
I've had a look at Yori's Loggical Hebrew page; Algorithm seems OK, but implementation is messy. My aim would be to write a "clean" implementation of the BiDi algorithm, as well as implement Contactual Analysis into the layout/renderer modules.
You mention some diffs that Cata put out; Where are they ?.
Regards,
Ahmad.
Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
It depend on HOW you add such charset. Have you see the diff cata put out. Maybe you can help us the merge those diff into mozilla source....Ahmad A. Ibrahim wrote:
Hi .. I've trying to add ISO-Arabic (ISO-8859-6) and Windows-Arabic (CP-1256) to the Mozilla source. After modifying the source code, and using Micro$oft's Simplified Arabic, Simplified Arabic Fixed fonts for test, I get garbage instead of leggible Arabic characters. Any pointers, ideas ..etc ?. Kind regards and best wishes, Ahmad A. Ibrahim.
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