From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:22:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080622072227.GB8566@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.uc4mub0jnx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:38:25PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:02:24 -0600, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
> wrote:
>
> >> Well, since we're not using it for long-term historical ranges -- and
> >> we'll need to be able to advance/reverse it a couple of days no matter
> >> the
> >> algorithm, then I say let's go with whatever is easiest for hans to read
> >> ;-)
> >
> > I think Umm al-Qura algorithm is more tested and is the one officially
> > used in Saudi Arabia, but I can't find any technical details about it,
> > though Arabeyes's ITL implements it
>
> How did you implement it without the technical details? I guess I'm not
> quite understanding...
>
> Can you find it and pass it alon?
>
The person who wrote that code supposedly had access to such technical
details, but I can't reach him or find such details. Will try searching
for it again.
> > and is giving me correct results so
> > far (unlike the Hijra algorithm). EMACS one seems to be widely used too,
> > but its ITL implementation gives me incorrect dates some times
>
> How incorrect?
One day less than the actual date i.e. it says today is 17/ 6/1429 while
it is, and Umm al-Qura correctly says, 18/ 6/1429.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-19 23:05 Khaled Hosny
2008-06-20 0:15 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-20 6:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-06-20 7:38 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-20 15:17 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-20 16:01 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-20 17:55 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-20 18:25 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-20 19:10 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-21 0:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-21 1:11 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-21 2:03 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-21 2:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-21 2:51 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-21 3:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-21 20:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2008-06-22 1:38 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-06-22 7:22 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2008-06-22 16:25 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-22 16:49 ` Hartmut Henkel
2008-06-22 17:01 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-22 17:10 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-06-22 17:23 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-22 19:01 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-06-22 17:29 ` Calendar resources Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-22 17:38 ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-22 22:45 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-20 20:03 ` Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic David
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