[Indic-computing-users] Not really 'Indic', but interesting...

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
http://www.arabeyes.org/

About The Arabeyes Project 
 
Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the
Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a
central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes
relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and
enthusiasts all over the world ..more.

Arabeyes News 

Katoob ver 0.3.0 Released [Sep 13, 2002] 
 
Arabeyes would like to announce the release of Katoob version 0.3.0
Katoob is a small text editor for *NIX operating systems, based on the
GTK+ library 2.0. 

ChangeLog:

New MDI interface, and many GUI enhancements 
GNOME compliant menubar 
Polish translation 
Arabic keyboard emulator (self-dependent input) 
Import/export files using 'HTML Numerical Characters Reference' 
Several bugfixes, code cleanups and optimizations 
More details in this post 

..more news 

Arabeyes member called an ACE ? [Aug 15, 2002] 
 
Arabeyes would like to note a recent interview article featuring
Arabeyes' own Nadim Shaikli as "Arabization Contributor and
Evangelist" (ACE) for August-2002 (read it in English or in
machine-translated Arabic). Give the article a read to find out more
about Nadim's warped mind :-) and work on getting yourself to be our
next ACE.
..more news 

Arabic command-line printing... [Jun 03, 2002] 
 
The Arabeyes project would like to note the availablity of a number of
new command-line Arabic text print options using both BDF and TTF
fonts. 
For further details, please read this post. 
..more news
 

mlterm - a fully working Arabic xterm [May 01, 2002] 
 
The Arabeyes project would like to turn your attention to the
availability of a fully working terminal emulator - mlterm-2.4.0. 

mlterm will allow its users to view/edit/mail Arabic/English
combinational files as well as use such common commands as 'cat',
'head', 'tail', 'less', 'more', 'vim', etc all with the utmost clarity
of being able to see both Arabic and English properly. Here is a
screenshot of it using the 'lynx' text-browser. 

For further details, please read this post. 


..more news 
    Project Updates for November 2002 
 

Quran (Nov 04, 2002) 
 
Mohammed Damt imported his 'gnomequran' application to the repository,
which is based on Gnome libraries and headers. 

The Qt application renamed to 'qtquran' and will be modified to use
libquran and not to require xmlwrapp and libxml2. 

The new 'libquran' will use ogg audio files. 

For more information, please read this thread. 
 

KDE-i18n (Nov 03, 2002) 
 
The KDE translation has been sync'ed with the main KDE repository. For
more information, read this post. 

Katoob (Nov 01, 2002) 
 
A development release "01112002" to test the multiple encodings,
Please revise ChangeLog & TODO