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Comment on Arabic Reshaper goes open source, codename “BAR=Better Arabic Reshaper” by Micho

Micho — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:43 +0000

thanks a lot for your Software, But I’m new in android phones, Can you tell me how to install it on my Android
by the way my mobile is T-mobile my touch 3G
thanks in advance

Comment on Arabic Reshaper goes open source, codename “BAR=Better Arabic Reshaper” by Masoud

Masoud — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:59:34 +0000

Thanks for Arabic Reshaper class,

It works great with normal text, but when I put Harakah like Fatha, Kasra and so on, again the characters appear separate. This is necessary for Quranic text. Can you help me about that?
Thanks

Comment on Arabic Language in Android by Julia Albashir

Julia Albashir — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:05:24 +0000

I have the Motorola Cliq and have been trying to figure out how to get my phone to read in Arabic. Can someone please tell me how to download it to my phone?

Comment on Arabic Language in Android by TT

TT — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:25:52 +0000

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Comment on Arabic Language in Android by MJ

MJ — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:29:03 +0000

guys there is a rom on xdadevelopers that fully supports arabic, i’m using it on my G1.

here’s the link

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1701190/kb7sqi-magic-full-V2.7.2.zip

Comment on Arabic Reshaper goes open source, codename “BAR=Better Arabic Reshaper” by agawish

agawish — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:04:11 +0000

Sure Saleh, I’ll explain it in a simple form.

First you need to make the font understand the Arabic letters instead of making it squares, so that why we put a custom font in our applications to read those Arabic letters, but the problem remains Yes its Arabic letters indeed, but they are not connected!

To connect them you have to actually know how many shapes the letter have, for example the “ل” character has 4 positions, like the following:
“ل” “لـ” “ـلـ” “ـل”

so you have to know in which position you should represent this “ل” if its a standalone or first of word, or end of word or in the middle of a word!

So we make a big matrix with the letter and its positions and shapes, and whenever I find “ل” in the middle, I replace it with “ـلـ” and so on with the rest of letters.

I hope that gives you a little brief on what was done.

Ofcourse there are more sophisticated scenarios like “لا” and “الله”

I hope I can get a hand to cover it all inshaAllah, and I recently added support to “لا” to my codebase

Comment on Arabic Reshaper goes open source, codename “BAR=Better Arabic Reshaper” by Saleh

Saleh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:23:53 +0000

Thanks guys for your efforts and time..

well, I know that Aman and agawish are great developers… but the thing is that you speak a little pit of jargons, which is not understood by normal and unexperienced programming languages users :)..

plz make it more simple…

I really appreciate your efforts in making Arabic lang. alive for Android, but I need from you to answer few questions if you dont mind of course..

1. agawish you have said that connected Arabic characters has to be made by hand, so what is the process please..

If you dont mind step by step to make things clear to us who are not good with IT stuff..

Thanks for your time

Comment on Arabic Language in Android by Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:12:43 +0000

awesome good job, been waiting for this

Arabic to English Dictionary

Comment on Arabic Language in Android by agawish

agawish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:15:02 +0000

I sent mail to one of the owners.

Thanks Ahmed

Comment on Arabic Language in Android by Ahmed Kamal

Ahmed Kamal — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:39:01 +0000

Hi Amr,

Arabic support is the 3rd most starred feature now!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5597

Can you please offer your help to Google to properly support Arabic in Android ?