From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:38:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080618213800.GA16028@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.ucymqnw3nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:50:35PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:44:19 -0600, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
> wrote:
>
>>> Get SC unipad and type identical logical input in Arabic and Farsi
>>> modes.
>>> The makers of Unipad are Iranian and they implement both Arabic and
>>> Farsi
>>> rules correctly, have keyboards etc. AFAIK, no other editor implements
>>> the bidi alg as well.
>>
>> I didn't use Unipad that much, but I think Gedit (GTK pased) does a
>> perfect job,
>
> No, it does not ;-)
>
>> I'm not aware of any windows port of it though.
>
> andLinux on W32 is wonderful, no more cygwin etc.
>
>> I'd like to
>> know what features in Unipad (regarding Arabic) that Gedit hasn't.
>
> One example:
>
> The following comes out correctly in Unipad, also in Opera's email
> composer (don't know how it will look in your client). It does not come
> out right in Windows Notepad or in gedit. Kate does get it right (and
> other kde apps as well), as well as OOo:
>
> ==============
> European:
> 18%, 1--3
>
> Arabic:
> ١٨٪، ١--٣
>
> Farsi:
> ۱۸٪، ۱--۳
> ==============
Oh, it is shame that even my terminal (mlterm) renders it right! I think
I'm going to report this :)
>
> See attached as well.
>
> Unipad is designed as a complete unicode utility, and has lots of other
> nifty features as well, especially for editing Arabic script. Its
> Arabic-script editing features are truly unique and useful. Eg, I
> select/edit vowels horizontally not vertically.
>
> Unipad has:
>
> Char Info bar:
> character code value (U+0000)
> character name (if assigned)
> character category (letter, decimal digit, etc.)
> character block (script, collection, etc.)
>
> Extended Char Info bar:
> decimal character code value
> encoded byte sequence (octals)
> bidirectional character type
> decimal digit value (only if the character represents a decimal digit)
>
> Unipad is not a good choice for a programmer's or TeX editor, but in
> overall unicode editing it is unrivalled, although it has not been
> updated since Unicode 4.1.0 :-(
Fortunately, thanks to WINE, it does run under Linux, even their web
site lists WINE as one of the supported platforms.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-09 1:21 Khaled Hosny
2008-06-09 13:43 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-09 15:20 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-09 17:01 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-09 21:08 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-13 21:52 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-14 1:34 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-15 17:26 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-15 20:32 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-15 20:50 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-15 20:58 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-15 21:42 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-16 16:14 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-15 20:37 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-15 20:36 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 1:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-10 1:36 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-10 1:44 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-10 7:34 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 15:28 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-10 15:32 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 21:30 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-18 5:40 ` Otared Kavian
2008-06-18 8:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-18 15:22 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-18 15:44 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-18 19:50 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-18 21:38 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2008-06-10 8:13 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 15:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-10 16:24 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-10 21:37 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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