system/bicon: Added (a Bidirectional Console).

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========
History
========
This program, BiCon, has a very entangled history.
That being said, here is a try on explaining it.
Prologue
--------
The program is the last in a series on programs to make the
console support bidirectionality. This has been needed in the
Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages among others.
Acon
----
Written by Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, this was the first program
that enjoyed relatively wide support, as it was distributed in
Mandrake.
Akka
----
The second effort has gone into improving the original acon code
and giving it vast additional abilities, this was the Akka
project, in Arabeyes. The Akka project is still there, if
somebody wants to look at it. Key contributors are Chahine
Hamila, Mohamed Elzubeir and Samy Al Bahra. It reached the
version 1.0 beta, but the code is becoming too complicated for
further enhancements. Additional information is found in the
project site, at Arabeyes.
Farsi
-----
Taking place more or less parallel to the Akka development,
Behdad Esfahbod - widely known for his work on FriBidi - wrote
"farsi", as a tool doing the same job as Akka, more Persian
oriented. He adopted the basic joining code from Roozbeh
Pournader, and borrowed some from script(1), mixed and matched
with FriBidi and Voila! The code from script(1) proved to be the
major stopper for its distribution. More of the story can be
found in HISTORY.farsi, in this package.
At last: BiCon
--------------
The next step in Arabeyes was to base the code on the old farsi
code. After cleaning up the problematic-licensed code and
enhancing Arabic support besides Persian, _BiCon_ was there.
Here is the old ChangeLog:
2004-January Behdad Esfahbod <bicon@behdad.org>
* *: Well, code is handed to Arabeyes people. Decided to
change the name to "BiCon". I'm not going to be the
maintainer anymore (hopefully). Already imported to
Arabeyes CVS. These nice people have removed the code
borrowed from "script" and replaced with code from Python
sources. We are still to make changes to fit the new
system. Thanks guys.
==========================================================================
2002-06-13 Behdad Esfahbod <farsi@behdad.org>
* */*.[ch]: Major changes. Support many options now, among them is
the option to output logical text, not visual.
2002-06-12 Behdad Esfahbod <farsi@behdad.org>
* keymap/isiri2901.kmap.gz: Proposed key positions for bidi marks
added.
2001-12-14 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
* farsi: Makes the shells current directory to be the same as when
user runs the script.
2001-12-05 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
* fcon/fcon.c: Now accepts parameters to run instead of default /bin/sh.
* bin/farsi: Pass parameteres to fcon.
* bin/farsidict: A small script for dictionary lookup, using farsi.
2001-10-13 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
* */Makefile: Small changes.
2001-10-04 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
* fconsole/Makefile: Set target clean to remove fconsole-config too.
2001-9-22 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
* First released under farsidev mailing list.

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BiCon: a Bidirectional Console
BiCon can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with
basic Unicode rendering (UTF-8).
Run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian according
to LANG or specify the country on the command line, for instance:
bicon ir # for Persian (Iran)
Keymaps and fonts for Arabic and Persian are included.
Use alt+shift to switch keyboard layouts in a graphical environment.
To know more:
"man bicon"
and
"man bicon.bin"
See also /usr/doc/bicon-<VERSION>/README.Slackware for BiCon's usage.
BiCon is maintained by Behdad Esfahbod.

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Additional information about BiCon's behavior
=============================================
BiCon behaves differently if called as "bicon" or "bicon.bin", and also
started from the console (or a tty) versus in a graphical environment.
BiCon ships two keymaps: arabic.map.gz and ir.map.gz and some console
fonts, mainly bicon-8x16-512.psfu.gz.
It can be started as "bicon" or "bicon.bin"
If started as "bicon" it sets the keymap or keyboard layout in a way that
depends whether the "bicon" command is given or not an argument.
1) If started as "bicon" from the console.
If a two characters country code is given as argument it is considered
to choose the keymap, else the country (or "territory" to be accurate)
part of LANG is used.
_ If the country (converted to lowercase letters) is found in this list:
ae dz eg iq jo ko kw lb ly ma om qa sa sd sy tn ye
then the keymap "arabic" is chosen.
_ If the country is "IR" or "ir" then the keymap "ir" is chosen.
The font bicon-8x16-512 is always used with its Unicode map.
IMPORTANT. You won't be able to use the "setfont" command after having
started bicon as a regular user. You will have to tentatively become root
with "su" to change the font if you want.
2) If started as "bicon" from an X terminal.
You will need to use an UTF-8 able or enabled terminal.
A switchable keyboard layout (us + the language that correspond to the
country set by the user or found in LANG) is set.
IMPORTANT:
_ BiCon doesn't set the font. You'll have to do that yourself. Be careful
to use a font including the needed glyphs.
_ BiCon sets the "option" for the X server to:
"grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
and the "layout" to:
"us,<ir or (country code)>"
This will override the key combination that you possibly have set in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf to toggle keyboards.
But you can change the settings made by BiCon with a command like this
one (after having started BiCon, of course):
setxkbmap \
-display "$DISPLAY" \
-layout "<layout1>,<layout2>" \
-option "<your options"> \
-print | \
xkbcomp -w 2 - "$DISPLAY"
3) If started as bicon.bin, BiCon doesn't load any font or keyboard.
You might prefer it that way if you want to keep your own settings.
Reference: file bin/bicon.in in the source archive.
See also:
_ man bicon
_ man bicon.bin
_ documents in /usr/doc/bicon-<version>
Didier Spaier <didier at slint dot fr>, 27/07/2015

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#!/bin/sh
# Slackware build script for bicon
# Copyright 2015 Didier Spaier Paris, France
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#
# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
# WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
# MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
# SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
# OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
# OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
# ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
PRGNAM=bicon
VERSION=${VERSION:-0.5}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
*) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
esac
fi
CWD=$(pwd)
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
else
SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
fi
set -e
rm -rf $PKG
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
cd $TMP
rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
chown -R root:root .
find -L . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
-o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
-o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
--enable-static=no \
--build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
make
make install DESTDIR=$PKG
find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
| cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
cp -a AUTHORS NEWS README THANKS TODO COPYING $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
# The file HISTORY is missing in the source tarball but can be of interest
# to some.
cp -a $CWD/HISTORY $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
# Some additional explanations about BiCon's usage could help the user
cp -a $CWD/README.Slackware $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
mkdir -p $PKG/install
cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
cd $PKG
/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}

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PRGNAM="bicon"
VERSION="0.5"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/behdad/bicon"
DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/behdad/bicon/releases/download/0.5/bicon-0.5.tar.gz"
MD5SUM="862972ed260f9e74277b8eeb7c81e126"
DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
MD5SUM_x86_64=""
REQUIRES=""
MAINTAINER="Didier Spaier"
EMAIL="didier at slint dot fr"

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bicon: bicon (a Bidirectional Console)
bicon:
bicon: BiCon can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with
bicon: basic Unicode rendering (UTF-8).
bicon:
bicon: Run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian according
bicon: to LANG or specify the country on the command line, for instance:
bicon: bicon ir # for Persian (Iran)
bicon:
bicon: Use alt+shift to switch keyboard layouts. See "man bicon".
bicon: Keymaps and fonts for Arabic and Persian are included.