Re: arabic input methods again

You'll want to use xkb for Arabic typing, not a gtk+ input
method. I don't know if a transliterated keymap exists or
not.

Noah

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 13:35:00 +0200, Alberto Corbi Bellot wrote:
> hi Noah (and arabeyes people)... my name is alberto, a spanish arabic
> student... i've recently come up with your gtk-im-extra page...
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> http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/
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>  i've tried to compile the code but found no "configure" script and so
> on.
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> i also wonder if i'll be able to type arabic or define my own input
> method for arabic. do you kown any input method for arabic? i've seen
> xcin or kinput2 work for japanesse. i'd like to use something like that
> for arabic.
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> for the time being i use yudit (www.yudit.org). yudit is an unicode
> editor with beautiful input methods for many languages. you can also
> easily define yours in a couple o minutes if you want. i've defined one
> for me in order to type arabic with mnemotecnic key combinations (it is
> indeed the standard used by ArabTeX and for plain arabic
> transliteration).
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> for example:
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> "." + "h" gives "=D8=AD"
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> "_" + "h" gives "=D8=AE"
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> "'" + "a" gives "=D8=A3"
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> the problem is that i always have to use yudit to type this way and the=
n
> copy/paste to openoffice, abiword or gedit... it would be great to use
> my own input method on any gnome app. do you know how?
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> any help appreciated.
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> Alberto Corbi Bellot <[email protected]>
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