Dov Feldstern wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Yes, Arabic is much more complicated, because you have the issue of
"shaping", and that's what encoding.C mainly deals with, I think.
Yes, that's right.
(BTW, how do you set up LyX to work with Arabic?
I just copied and pasted some stuff on the internet and compare the
representation in Firefox and LyX. I cannot use the keyboard to write
arabic except with copy&paste of course.
I'd be willing to try
it out if I knew how to set it up --- I can read Arabic.)
I cannot even do that :-(
But I count on LyX to help me to learn Arabic.
For Hebrew, however, the bidi algorithm works very well. So the problems
in Arabic probably stem from the shaping issue, more than from the Bidi
issue. Therefore, I think that unless we can prove that the Bidi
algorithm as implemented in LyX really is problematic, we should just
stick with it.
OK, we'll see. I am not an expert here... only looked at that stuff
today so please take my words with caution.
Abdel.
