Arabic-L:GEN:Unix hack for Arabic Web Pages

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Unix hack for Arabic Web Pages

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Date:  29 Oct 2001
From: dparvaz at unm.edu
Subject: Unix hack for Arabic Web Pages

Sometimes all you have is a UNIX terminal window. Here's a quick hack
that will grab a web page and display it in a transliteration system
based on Arabic morse code. In this transcripion the alphabet looks
like this:

ABTCJHODZR;S:XVUY"GFQKLMN?WI, and E=hamza.

Here's the two-line shell script:

#!/bin/sh
curl -Ls $1 | tr "A-Z" "a-z" | tr "\r\n" "  " | sed  -e "s/<p>/||/g"
-e "s/<.tr>/|/g" -e "s/<br>/||/g" -e "s/<[^>]*>//g" -e "s/ / /g"
| tr
"\301\302\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\321\322\
323\324\325\326\330\331\332\333\335\336\337\341\343\344\345\346\354\355"
"EAAWAEAB?TCJHODZR;S:XVUY\"GFQKLMN?WII" | tr "|" "\n" | tr -s " "

Cheers,

Dan.

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