Re: Arabic Language Ontology

Timothy Redmond <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.ontology.protege.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> It may be a bit more complicated than that, because Arabic is written 
> right-to-left,
> while English is written left-to-right 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left).
>
> The standard Java Swing text widgets should be able to work with 
> right-to-left
> text, but I am not sure if this works out of the box following system 
> settings
> and whether left-to-right and right-to-left characters can be mixed in 
> one text. 

Protege/java seemed to work this way right out of the box.  I don't know 
the language so I can't do any kind of sanity check on this.

The other complication - I can see this as I type random stuff - is that 
some of the unicode characters are given by two keystrokes in sequence 
(with my keyboard settings).  I have seen this with other languages as 
well and I would hope that someone fluent in arabic would understand 
what was going on.

-Timothy


On 07/16/2012 08:34 AM, Martin Kuba wrote:
> Dne 16.7.2012 16:54, Timothy Redmond napsal(a):
>>
>> In order to give a quick answer, I am going to focus on the arabic 
>> characters part of your question.  The short answer is that you don't 
>> have to do anything - it should just work.
>>
>> Protege accepts the full range of characters from the unicode 
>> character set.  It reads and writes files using the UTF-8 character 
>> encoding.  I believe that most of the characters that you will want in
>> an arabic ontology will have unicode representatives.   You can check 
>> for yourself - the code charts for unicode can be found here [1].
>
> It may be a bit more complicated than that, because Arabic is written 
> right-to-left,
> while English is written left-to-right 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left).
>
> The standard Java Swing text widgets should be able to work with 
> right-to-left
> text, but I am not sure if this works out of the box following system 
> settings
> and whether left-to-right and right-to-left characters can be mixed in 
> one text.
>
> Best regards
>
> Martin


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