Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode


Mike Wright wrote:
Where is your Arabic text coming from in the first place? You say
elsewhere: "It wouldn't be practical to get a native speaker of every
language we want to support." How much text are you talking about?

Once I've got the tool working, it'll be sent off to translators in
whatever language we're doing. But the software also includes user
input at runtime (it's an educational package for schools that includes
interactive worksheets) so I need to get it working for pretty much any
input.

Actually, it's pretty good so far, handling the presentation forms and
ligatures correctly (we hope - the first translator is going to have a
go today so I'll soon find out if I've got everything wrong). It's not
handling bidirectional yet - a number of Arabic people have told us
'we're quite used to typing our numbers in back to front', although I
doubt we'll be able to get away with it in the long run.

Danny

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