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| 3868.1 | TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX | SPECXN::REESE | How much is that ALPHA in the window? | Thu May 11 1995 10:30 | 11 | 
|  |     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
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| 3868.2 | not available due to lack of requirements | SMURF::WENDY |  | Thu May 11 1995 12:24 | 12 | 
|  |     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
    [email protected]
    
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| 3868.3 | Well it's doable... | THEWAV::GASSNER_ST |  | Wed May 17 1995 16:47 | 11 | 
|  |     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
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| 3868.4 | Contact LC Israel for help | FRAIS::RHAGEN | Regina Hagen | Thu May 18 1995 05:25 | 9 | 
|  |     I am sure the Localization Center/International Systems Engineering 
    (ISE) group in Israel could help you. Sorry, I'm no longer a Deccie 
    and therefore can't give you a name to contact. Maybe somebody 
    reading this can.
    
    Israel does not only Hebrew but also Arabic stuff.
    
    Tsch��
    Regina
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| 3868.5 |  | STAR::FENSTER | Yaacov Fenster, Operating systems Quality and Tools @ZKO3/4W15 3 | Thu May 18 1995 08:09 | 3 | 
|  |     You could start out with Aharon (TAVENG::) Goldman.
    
    	Yaacov
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| 3868.6 | We have implemented a prototype for Arabic support in X/Motif | TAVENG::SHAI | Shai Ophir, ISE/Israel, DTN 882-3470 | Sun May 21 1995 06:13 | 5 | 
|  | 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.
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