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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

3868.0. "help for arabic fonts" by HAMIS3::RACHUY (5-Uhr-Teefax) Thu May 11 1995 08:46

    Hi out there,
    
    we have a severe problem getting arabic fonts for OSF/1 workstations
    and keyboards for a customer.
    He has to finish his bit tomorrow !!!!
    
    thanx
    
    Dieter
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3868.1TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIXSPECXN::REESEHow much is that ALPHA in the window?Thu May 11 1995 14:3011
    Hi Dieter!
    
    You might be better off posting this to one of the technical notes
    conferences.  The Digital Unix (formerly DEC OSF) notes conference
    might be a good place to start:
    
    TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    Carl
3868.2not available due to lack of requirementsSMURF::WENDYThu May 11 1995 16:2412
    Digital UNIX does not currently have support for Arabic. This is a 
    language we see many requests for but to date we have not been able to 
    get substantial business justification to provide the support. 
    If you can provide some of this information please contact the 
    I18N product manager, Bob (UNXA::)Perciaccante. 
    
    wendy
    Wendy Rannenberg
    Technical Director/Internationalization
    UNIX Engineering Group
    wendy@zk3.dec.com
    
3868.3Well it's doable...THEWAV::GASSNER_STWed May 17 1995 20:4711
    FWIW, I have implemented Arabic al-arabi before.  The algorithm is far
    more complex that one might initially suspect - it took about a year. 
    If anybody's interested in knowing how it's done, let me know.  It's
    basically an fsa with multiple look-up tables for shape codes - the
    hard parts are diacriticals, english (and digit) insert, as the
    direction of cursor movement changes, depending upon which keys are
    pressed.  FWIW, Arabic and Hebrew are implementable with only slight
    variants of the same algorithm; and the character set is defined in
    either 7 or 8 bit codes.  
    
    /steve
3868.4Contact LC Israel for helpFRAIS::RHAGENRegina HagenThu May 18 1995 09:259
3868.5STAR::FENSTERYaacov Fenster, Operating systems Quality and Tools @ZKO3/4W15 3Thu May 18 1995 12:093
    You could start out with Aharon (TAVENG::) Goldman.
    
    	Yaacov
3868.6We have implemented a prototype for Arabic support in X/MotifTAVENG::SHAIShai Ophir, ISE/Israel, DTN 882-3470Sun May 21 1995 10:135
The prototype is not a product. It currently runs on VMS.
I was using a public domain Arabic font for this purpose. 
However we have one font file only (one size, one style).

Shai.