Bicon

BiCon, short for Bidirectional-Console, is a tool which allows the usage of Arabic on Linux/*nix consoles. BiCon allows the user to read, write or view Arabic in text consoles using any existing application without any changes.

BiCon
Start date	Jan 20, 2004
Maintainer	Muhammad Alkarouri
Contributors	Mohammed Elzubeir :: Behdad Esfahbod
Status	Inactive
Mailing list	Develop
Version control	Git repository Browse files Commits history
Issues	Todo Report a bug

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Downloads

• bicon-0.2.0 (First version)
• bicon-0.0.20040505 (Second alpha release)

Todos

ID	Due Date	Priority	State	Assigned To	Description
123	2004-02-27	High	Done	Muhammad Alkarouri	rewrite bicon scripts
124	2004-04-06	Normal	Pending	All	review arabic keymaps
125	2004-04-20	Normal	Pending	All	Write documentation

Contribute by choosing an unassigned todo ("Assigned To"=None) or a shared todo ("Assigned To"=All).

History Log

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(Aug 21, 2004)

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0.2.0 version of BiCon is out. Enjoy.

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(May 07, 2004)

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Second alpha release of BiCon is out. Less bugs. Better Product.

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(Apr 01, 2004)

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The real first alpha release of BiCon is out. Features support for Arabic and Persian for various locales, under text mode and X.

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(Mar 31, 2004)

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The first alpha release of BiCon is out.

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(Jan 21, 2004)

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Project gets initiated by the import of Behdad Esfahbod's now GPLized initial code (notes regarding that initial code can be found in this thread).