Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:13:37PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:03:10 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:11:57 -0600, Khaled Hosny wrote:

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Not to mention Saudi Arabia, which uses the lunar months...

But I think this another issue of its own, since SA uses Hijri not Georgian calender, do we have support for lunar based hijri calender?

Good point. I'll try to find a conversion algorithm...

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/datetime/hijrigregorianclass.aspx

The guy here claims to have a better algorithm than others http://ojuba.org/wiki/doku.php/hijra/, it is written completely in python. I didn't compare it with others myself, though. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team