Title :
A special library for supporting Jawi fonts in BGI mode
Author :
Zaqaibeh, Belal ; Al-Qdah, M. ; Ibrahim, Hamidali ; Taysir, Malik
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol., Multimedia Univ., Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper introduces a method of writing Jawi script in Borland graphic mode (BGI); something that is not handled effectively with modern computer systems. The encoding algorithm of this method works by spanning the keyboard keys sequentially from left to right and top to bottom and outputting a numerical value for each key on the keyboard so that each key on the keyboard has a numerical code value. Special drawing functions are designed to draw the different Jawi letters. A Set is used to store the value (shape) of each letter including the letters that fall in the beginning, middle, and end of words as the letters in Jawi change their appearance depending on their position in the word. All the sets and the procedures that correspond to the Jawi letters are stored in one library file. This writing method was tested and it achieved a good, easy, and relatively speedy typing.
Keywords :
computer graphics; software libraries; BGI mode; Borland graphic mode; Jawi fonts; computer systems; encoding algorithm; numerical code value; Computer graphics; Government; Information technology; Keyboards; Libraries; Multimedia systems; Natural languages; Operating systems; Turing machines; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Development, 2003. SCORED 2003. Proceedings. Student Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8173-4
DOI :
10.1109/SCORED.2003.1459682