From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41830 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Khaled Hosny Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:22:27 +0300 Message-ID: <20080622072227.GB8566@khaled-laptop> References: <20080620175534.GA23756@khaled-laptop> <485C00BC.5050906@wxs.nl> <20080621011157.GA7373@khaled-laptop> <20080621025116.GA12911@khaled-laptop> <20080621200224.GA29893@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0809596722==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214119451 12583 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2008 07:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:24:11 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 22 09:24:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAJwW-0003WZ-3b for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:24:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DDD1FB71; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:24:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12096-01-3; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E61A1FBBE; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B9E1FBBE for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:23:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12096-01-2 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:22:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.176]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF5D1FBAC for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:22:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so994462ika.2 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.113.16 with SMTP id l16mr4605992ebc.157.1214119356678; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ( [41.232.35.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g11sm5520897gve.8.2008.06.22.00.22.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:22:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41830 Archived-At: --===============0809596722== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip" Content-Disposition: inline --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 = =20 > wrote: >=20 > >> 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= =20 > >> the > >> algorithm, then I say let's go with whatever is easiest for hans to re= ad > >> ;-) > > > > 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 >=20 > How did you implement it without the technical details? I guess I'm not = =20 > quite understanding... >=20 > Can you find it and pass it alon? >=20 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 >=20 > 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 --=20 Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIXf2zRoqITGOuyPIRAhyHAKCRaxu8jmfIaq8/qNbzivDAfwB9JACfejjY 0JDIJj2J+XLIGVdVpe9NfOc= =pjqA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip-- --===============0809596722== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ --===============0809596722==--