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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: Arabic support in Kermit
Date: 12 Jan 2000 14:50:43 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <85hoqo$ouc$1@techftp.technion.ac.il>,
<JODY@lib.haifa.ac.il> wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I am trying to find out about support for Arabic in Kermit, in particular the
: version for Windows 95/98.
There is currently no support for Arabic in Kermit 95.
: Currently, we display Arabic records from our bibliographic catalog on
: terminals capable of displaying a special font. But we are gradually phasing
: out our terminals, replacing them with PCs, and there the font won't work.
: There is a terminal-emulation program, Reflection, that supports Arabic well
: enough, but the cost for the number of stations we'd need to install it on
: is prohibitive. So, the idea came up of checking out Kermit.
:
: The website at Columbia implies that Arabic is not yet supported (it's on the
: wish-list), but I wondered whether there have has been any work done, by the
: Kermit staff or outside collaborators.
In order to support Arabic two things must happen:
. we must complete the GUI version (which has taken us much longer
than we could ever have expected.)
. the internal virtual display model must be modified to support
arbitrary double width characters.
. someone is going to have to pay for the development of the
Arabic portion of the Unicode font to be used
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org