Hi gang,
For Arabic we use a Latin transcription in Aleph/(e-)Omega (or even ArabTeX) unless one of the encoding filters like utf-8 is used. Even for utf-8 files, however, it would be very useful to be able to convert a utf-8 file to Latin transcription for further processing by Aleph/(e-)Omega. For example, adding diacritics is much easier to do in Latin than in an Arabic script editor because Latin transcription is one-dimensional and adding diacritics to Arabic is a 2-dimen affair.
The best thing would be a perl script but I don't know perl at all (except to run some some precreated scripts). If someone out of the kindness of their heart could write a short and simple script for just seven characters I could do the rest myself and present it back here.
Now all of the Arabic charachters in utf-8 can be represented by extended ascii. I need something like this, that converts every extended ascii representation of Arabic utf-8 into a Latin transcription:
ÃÂ => A
ÃÂ => b
ÃÂ => j
ÃÂ => d
Ãâ => h
ÃË => w
ÃÂ => z
If someone could write a perl script that can accomplish the above conversion, I can manually fill in the rest of the script. Basically I use a modified version of the ArabTeX transcription.
Here is a "gift" in return: a sample utf-8 Arabic file that can be processed by Aleph/(e-)Omega in ConTeXt (you will probably need to dvips this, though some dvi-viewers can do the postscript/16-bit thing):
============================================== \hoffset=0pt % for Omega bug: has this been fixed?
\def\ArabicUTF{\ocp\UTFArUni=inutf8 %% in88596
%\ocp\UTFArUni=in88596
\ocp\UniCUni=uni2cuni
\ocp\CUniArab=cuni2oar
\ocplist\UTFArOCP=
\addbeforeocplist 1 \UTFArUni
\addbeforeocplist 1 \UniCUni
\addbeforeocplist 1 \CUniArab
\nullocplist
\pushocplist\UTFArOCP}\input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex \switchtobodyfont[omarb,12pt] %
\textdir TRT% \pardir TRT% \ArabicUTF
\starttext
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\stoptext
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Best Idris
-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
