From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20979 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: unicode / utf Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:21:48 -0600 Message-ID: <42BC4A9D@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119467856 29340 80.91.229.2 (22 Jun 2005 19:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 22 21:17:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlAj2-0006bo-8w for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:17:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FF4127CF; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:23:44 +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 11987-05; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:23:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E1F127C9; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:21:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C95127C9 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:21:51 +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 11995-03 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:21:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99980127C0 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j5MJLnF1441176; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:21:49 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j5MJLmH786862; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:21:49 -0600 X-WebMail-UserID: ishamid Original-To: Hans Hagen , mailing list for ConTeXt users X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002247, 00002264 X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20979 Hi Hans, I've been dealing with getting Unicode Arabic working for the Arabic project so I'll be glad to help with the Arabic part. I have some fresh ideas for a new standard in this regard also... Best Idris >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen ===== >I think that >we need (a volunteer) to make (us) some kind of hebrew/arab encoding and fall >back font (probably virtual) with all glyphs (no ligs needed for arab, just >individual shapes). ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523