Re: Summary of bidi branch?

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

Eli> We do have the encoding (arabic-iso-8bit, albeit not thoroughly
Eli> supported), but not an input method.

[...]

Eli> If all you want is to input characters, and don't care about
Eli> displaying them correctly, then making an input method that produces
Eli> mule-unicode-* characters should be easy.

Here is one that does the same chars as the base arabic layout in
xkeyboard-config.  It'll need a s/is not yet part of/is part of/
in the license and, I presume, assignment papers to be included.

In case it gets munged in transit, a copy is available at:

http://jhcloos.com/emacs/quail/arabic.el

-JimC

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;;; arabic.el --- Quail package for inputting Arabic characters  -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-

;; Copyright (C) 2007 James Cloos <[email protected]>
;;  Copyright to be assigned to the Free Software Foundation upon request

;; Keywords: mule, input method, Arabic

;; This file is not yet part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(require 'quail)

(quail-define-package
 "arabic" "Arabic" "ع" nil "Arabic input method.

Based on Arabic table in X Keyboard Configuration DB.
" nil t t t t nil nil nil nil nil t)

;;  ذّ 1! 2@ 3# 4$ 5% 6^ 7& 8* 9( 0) -_ =+
;;      ضَ صً ثُ قٌ فﻹ غإ ع` ه÷ خ× ح؛ ج{ د} <>
;;       ش\ سS ي[ ب] لﻷ اأ تـ ن، م/ ك: ط"
;;        ئ~ ءْ ؤِ رٍ ﻻﻵ ىآ ة' و, ز. ظ؟
;;

(quail-define-rules
 ("`" ?ذ)

 ("Q" ?َ)
 ("W" ?ً)
 ("E" ?ُ)
 ("R" ?ٌ)
 ("T" ?ﻹ)
 ("Y" ?إ)
 ("U" ?`)
 ("I" ?÷)
 ("O" ?×)
 ("P" ?؛)

 ("A" ?\\)
 ("S" ?S)
 ("D" ?[)
 ("F" ?])
 ("G" ?ﻷ)
 ("H" ?أ)
 ("J" ?ـ)
 ("K" ?،)
 ("L" ?/)
 (";" ?:)

 ("Z" ?~)
 ("X" ?ْ)
 ("C" ?ِ)
 ("V" ?ٍ)
 ("B" ?ﻵ)
 ("N" ?آ)
 ("M" ?')
 ("<" ?,)
 (">" ?.)
 ("?" ?؟)

 ("`" ?ذ)

 ("q" ?ض)
 ("w" ?ص)
 ("e" ?ث)
 ("r" ?ق)
 ("t" ?ف)
 ("y" ?غ)
 ("u" ?ع)
 ("i" ?ه)
 ("o" ?خ)
 ("p" ?ح)

 ("a" ?ش)
 ("s" ?س)
 ("d" ?ي)
 ("f" ?ب)
 ("g" ?ل)
 ("h" ?ا)
 ("j" ?ت)
 ("k" ?ن)
 ("l" ?م)
 (";" ?ك)

 ("z" ?ئ)
 ("x" ?ء)
 ("c" ?ؤ)
 ("v" ?ر)
 ("b" ?ﻻ)
 ("n" ?ى)
 ("m" ?ة)
 ("," ?و)
 ("." ?ز)
 ("/" ?ظ)

 ("'" ?ط))

;;; arch-tag: 
;;; arabic.el ends here
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