Ive done a bit of work translating to the best of my
crude ability -- some of the basics for the arabiv
wikipedia -- if anyone can read Arabic and would like
to proof, please do..
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translated_for_system_functions
I think it will come along nicely --- there are some
issues with links.. particularly if there are too many
langalinks at top, there will be some overlap ...
nothing worth explaining or dealing with yet... the
place needs some basic electrical wiring before we can
start looking for furtniture....
There is also the issue with Arabic that Unicode might
not be able to keep up with its morphology... Ill
report more later, but apparently Arabic -as rendered
by unicode is not quite up to grade in terms of the
rules for morphing letters depending on their
placement -- the Unicode Unidate has a special patch
that makes do with arabic, but wont quite accomodate
some of the other more morphic scripts out there.. Ill
have a full report later, but it helps to plan for the
future, especially where the issue of the
base-encoding for an entire pedia is concerned... Itll
be an open issue ... whether Unicode is the direction
most Arabic dev is going...
Anyway... enough for today...
-S-
p.s. -- what happened to any text that was leftover
from the phase 1 ar.wiki?
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