Re: [SPAM: 3.411] Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)

[Richard MAHONEY <rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:32:35PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> For Arabic we use a Latin transcription in Aleph/(e-)Omega (or even 
> ArabTeX) unless one of the encoding filters like utf-8 is used. Even for 
> utf-8 files, however, it would be very useful to be able to convert a 
> utf-8 file to Latin transcription for further processing by 
> Aleph/(e-)Omega. For example, adding diacritics is much easier to do in 
> Latin than in an Arabic script editor because Latin transcription is 
> one-dimensional and adding diacritics to Arabic is a 2-dimen affair.
> 
> The best thing would be a perl script but I don't know perl at all (except 
> to run some some precreated scripts). If someone out of the kindness of 
> their heart could write a short and simple script for just seven 
> characters I could do the rest myself and present it back here.

You might like to look at some of the encoding conversion scripts at:

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/scripts/scripts.html

N.B. For sorting utf-8 Arabic you might find the perl module
`Sort::ArbBiLex' useful


Best regards,

 Richard Mahoney


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