On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:32:35PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
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.
You might like to look at some of the encoding conversion scripts at: http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/scripts/scripts.html N.B. For sorting utf-8 Arabic you might find the perl module `Sort::ArbBiLex' useful Best regards, Richard Mahoney -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: homepages.comnet.net.nz/~r-mahoney Littledene | telephone / telefax (man.): ++64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: ++64 25 829 986 OXFORD, NZ | e-mail: r.mahoney[use"@"]comnet.net.nz