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Old 04-14-2009, 08:18 AM   #1
ali_sade
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Smile openinkpot and middle eastern languages Arabic, Persian (Farsi)

I was working on creating a reasonably smart parser for eastern languages Arabic, Persian (Farsi) - which have are right to left and depending on the position of the letter in the word, the letter forms change, and are included in Unicode fonts.

My initial direction was to try to figure out the SDK from Jinke and try and write a new parser for Arabic using epub.

The second thing i did was study the code of nano-x (http://www.microwindows.org/) which is a lightweight X server which can run on appliance to find out if I can enable the Arabic support right from there. There is a viewer in nano-x which seems quite capable.

However as I am getting to know openinkpot more and more now I am wondering if a better approach is to go ahead with this project.

Do you have any pointers to give me? Does openinkpot support Arabic intrinsically?
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