From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15331 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re:Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:19:05 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <20040605230846.GB54691@131-203-240-72.remote.comnet.co.nz> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086481327 8847 80.91.224.253 (6 Jun 2004 00:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 00:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sun Jun 06 02:21:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BWlQD-0002Ni-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 02:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B8710B46; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:21:52 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from eagle.acns.ColoState.EDU (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC3610B21 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:19:07 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.acns.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i560J6L528798 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:19:06 -0600 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id i560J6e64726 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:19:06 -0600 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20040605230846.GB54691@131-203-240-72.remote.comnet.co.nz> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15331 On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:08:46 +1200, Richard MAHONEY wrote: > 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 Thnx Richard; most of the scripts are beyond my capability;->, but the UTF8 to TeX / LaTeX scripts seem very useful for a possible transliteration module, which is something else I need to do for my journal, where people send in different transliteration conventions that I have to convert to the journal's convention. I'm ashamed to say it; I've been doing this kind of thing manually up to now; \startsuperhero must... learn... scripting... language... \stopsuperhero Thnx Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523