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