The
Arabic support for Silicon Graphics IRIX Operating System
Available
on IRIX 6.5
We provide
language and cultural support for Arab countries (Middle Eastern,
North African) on the Silicon Graphics platform. You can customize
your system to recognize certain bilingual (English/Arabic)
conventions, such as left to right and right to left writing
directions, automatic shape determination (context analysis),
dual keyboard mapping, numerals shaping, date and time formats,
currency format and sorting order.
The Arabic
Language Module (ALM) is part of the IRIX family of language
modules. ALM is a product designed specially to support
the Arabic language. The ALM Package is composed of two main
subpackages: ALM.TTY and ALM.GUI. The user may choose one
of these subpackages depending on the application environment
ALM.TTY
is an extension to the IRIX operating system Kernel for the
"Character Interface" support. A stream module is
added to the kernel, processing on exceptional basis the Arabic
characters transferred along TTY lines. A special shell and
a variety of commands are added to complete the package. ALM.TTY
handles winterm window displays and real alphanumeric terminals
either on local or remote connections.
ALM.GUI
allows arabization of MIT X Window and/or OSF Motif interface
based applications as well as the full localization of the
whole IndigoMagic desktop environment including IRIX desktop
tools such as Toolchest, 4DWm, MoviePlayer, CDplayer, ImageWorks...
The arabization is included in different library levels, depending
on the application use itself.
ALM will
allow staff in your office to share and use existing IRIX
applications in Arabic with little or no adjustment. With
ALM load and go transparency, a user can use immediately,
in Arabic, applications such as vi, uemacs, Indigo Magic Tools,
Z-Mail or any TTY application or Motif based interfaced program,
without any modification of the application. A user can even
mix Arabic and English characters within the same document,
with a simple keystroke. Such bilingual power and elegance
w ere never possible before.
- Character
Codeset ISO 8859-6, ASMO 708 and ASMO 449+ supported.
- Bilingual
Keyboard: The keyboard mapping may be switched to English
or Arabic by a simple keystroke. Arabic letters are indicated
by keyboard stickers.
- Impressario
support for Arabic printing (PostScript)
- Direct
Printer Connection support (font downloading)
ALM TTY (Console) Features |
- Implemented
in a pushable STREAMS module format.
- winterm/xwsh/xterm
terminal emulator screen support.
- Most popular
terminal support (Wyse, DEC Vt320, HP,...)
- Specific
shells allowing the activation of the product (esh, ash,
eksh, aksh, araexec)
- specific
set of new commands allowing to customize the Arabic process
parameters (context, nocontext, hindi, nohindi, dataproc,
wordproc, tashkil, notashkil, neutral, arabic, english,...)
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ALM GUI (X11/Motif) Features |
- Xlib text
rendering support.
- Xm Label,
String, Text, TextField widgets support.
- Cut and
paste and drag and drop features support.
- Proportional
spacing font set including several font size.
- Directly
usable with X11/Xm dynamically linked applications by setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
- Can be
easily adapted to X11/Xm statically linked applications
by relinking.
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The MediaMail-pro program (Zmail) is supported under ALM.
The user may send/receive Arabic mails through the network,
read them on the screen and print them using a new version
of the mail pretty printer filter.
Moreover,
all menu, labels and messages of MediaMail-pro have been localized
into Arabic Language.
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For the Web
environment support, ALM includes the a copy of the AraMosaic
Arabic Web Browser distribution. AraMosaic has been enhanced
to support full Arabic HTML document (Text selection, Right
to Left presentation, Postscript printing...) and allows to
browse ISO 8859-6, MS CP1256 and ISIRI 3342 encoded HTML
documents.
Also, ALM allows
directly the use of Netscape Navigator 3.x in Arabic in order
to browse Arabic HTML documents. However, since Netscape has
not been directly Arabized, some features such as Text Selection
for Cut'n Paste operation and mainly the Mouse pointing within
a text string is not supported in all cases. AraMosaic fixes
this problem.
An ALM Development
Package is also available. It is specially designed for application
developers that want to address deeper the Arab market needs.
This package includes ALM Arabic Libraries specific access
for Display and Postscript printing applications.
For more
information on ALM, you can download a Postscript
slide Presentation or contact the following :
LangBox
International
Immeuble
Space, Bat. B - 208 / 212, Route de Grenoble - 06200 Nice
- France
Tel:
+33 (0)4 93 71 14 10 - Fax: +33 (0)4 93 71 15 60 - E-Mail:
support@langbox.com
and/or
Middle
East and North Africa
P.O.
Box 17472 Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971
4 814545 - Fax: +971 4 813814 - Email: admin@dubai.sgi.com
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