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Arabic status revisited.

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 15/06/2006 - 2:49pm

Arabic is somehow a complex language when it comes to computer processing, It requires certain capabilities from the rendering and processing engines.
I'd consider 2 things to be the most important things, BiDi and Shaping, While Shaping deals with the different forms of a letter according to its position in the word, BiDi deals with the arrangement of embedded Arabic and English words.


Why aspell and Not Baghdad ?

Submitted by msameer on Fri, 24/03/2006 - 4:34pm

It all started with a question from Amr Gharbeia
"Why are we working on an Arabic spell checker ?, Why not a wordlist for aspell ?"
Oh, That's a simple question but it changed a lot of things.


Baghdad, The yet to be.

Submitted by msameer on Sun, 12/02/2006 - 5:36pm

As of today, The 12th of February 2005, The CVS now holds the new Baghdad code, I've dumped the old code and data files.


Arabic, The big problem.

Submitted by msameer on Sun, 02/01/2005 - 2:04pm

I don't know why I'm writing this.
I've been envolved with Arabic for the last few years.
During the last few weeks I've started to realize the problems with Arabic, Noot only when it comes to text processing by the computer, But For non native Arabic speakers and even for native Arabic speakers like us.


An Imagination of a hypothetical LUG.

Submitted by msameer on Mon, 07/06/2004 - 8:20pm

I'm writing here my imagination about a hypothetical LUG that was formed once in a bad place, We shall see what happened...

This place is called "El-3omraneia", What a geeky name!

Despite the name, Being in this country is enough to kill all your derams and hopes.


The problem with Linux-Egypt

Submitted by msameer on Sun, 30/05/2004 - 2:25am

OK, I'm stating my opinions here on why I don't like how things are happening there.
With all my respect to Linux-Egypt Administrators and Moderators, But guys, You should realize something.
I loved and still love Linux-Egypt.