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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.