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diff --git a/system/bicon/HISTORY b/system/bicon/HISTORY
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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.
diff --git a/system/bicon/README b/system/bicon/README
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+BiCon: a Bidirectional Console
+
+BiCon can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with
+basic Unicode rendering (UTF-8).
+
+Run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian according
+to LANG or specify the country on the command line, for instance:
+  bicon ir # for Persian (Iran)
+
+Keymaps and fonts for Arabic and Persian are included. 
+
+Use alt+shift to switch keyboard layouts in a graphical environment.
+To know more:
+
+  "man bicon"
+and
+  "man bicon.bin"
+
+See also /usr/doc/bicon-<VERSION>/README.Slackware for BiCon's usage.
+
+BiCon is maintained by Behdad Esfahbod.
diff --git a/system/bicon/README.Slackware b/system/bicon/README.Slackware
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+Additional information about BiCon's behavior
+=============================================
+
+BiCon behaves differently if called as "bicon" or "bicon.bin", and also
+started from the console (or a tty) versus in a graphical environment.
+
+BiCon ships two keymaps: arabic.map.gz and ir.map.gz and some console
+fonts, mainly bicon-8x16-512.psfu.gz.
+
+It can be started as "bicon" or "bicon.bin"
+
+If started as "bicon" it sets the keymap or keyboard layout in a way that
+depends whether the "bicon" command is given or not an argument.
+
+1) If started as "bicon" from the console.
+
+If a two characters country code is given as argument it is considered
+to choose the keymap, else the country (or "territory" to be accurate)
+part of LANG is used.
+_ If the country (converted to lowercase letters) is found in this list:
+  ae dz eg iq jo ko kw lb ly ma om qa sa sd sy tn ye
+  then the keymap "arabic" is chosen.
+_ If the country is "IR" or "ir" then the keymap "ir" is chosen.
+
+The font bicon-8x16-512 is always used with its Unicode map.
+
+IMPORTANT. You won't be able to use the "setfont" command after having
+started bicon as a regular user. You will have to tentatively become root
+with "su" to change the font if you want.
+
+2) If started as "bicon" from an X terminal.
+
+You will need to use an UTF-8 able or enabled terminal.
+
+A switchable keyboard layout (us + the language that correspond to the
+country set by the user or found in LANG) is set.
+
+IMPORTANT:
+_ BiCon doesn't set the font. You'll have to do that yourself. Be careful
+  to use a font including the needed glyphs.
+_ BiCon sets the "option" for the X server to:
+    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
+  and the "layout" to:
+    "us,<ir or (country code)>"
+
+This will override the key combination that you possibly have set in
+/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf to toggle keyboards.
+
+But you can change the settings made by BiCon with a command like this
+one (after having started BiCon, of course):
+  setxkbmap \
+    -display "$DISPLAY" \
+    -layout "<layout1>,<layout2>" \
+    -option "<your options"> \
+    -print | \
+  xkbcomp -w 2 - "$DISPLAY"
+
+3) If started as bicon.bin, BiCon doesn't load any font or keyboard.
+You might prefer it that way if you want to keep your own settings.
+
+Reference: file bin/bicon.in in the source archive.
+
+See also:
+_ man bicon
+_ man bicon.bin
+_ documents in /usr/doc/bicon-<version>
+
+Didier Spaier <didier at slint dot fr>, 27/07/2015
diff --git a/system/bicon/bicon.SlackBuild b/system/bicon/bicon.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for bicon
+
+# Copyright 2015 Didier Spaier Paris, France
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
+# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+#
+# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
+#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+#
+#  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+#  WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+#  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO
+#  EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+#  SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
+#  PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
+#  OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
+#  WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
+#  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
+#  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+PRGNAM=bicon
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.5}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+
+find -L . \
+ \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
+  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
+  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+
+
+./autogen.sh
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix=/usr \
+  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+  --sysconfdir=/etc \
+  --localstatedir=/var \
+  --mandir=/usr/man \
+  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
+  --enable-static=no \
+  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
+
+make
+make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+
+find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
+  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+
+find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+for i in $( find $PKG/usr/man -type l ) ; do ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a AUTHORS NEWS README THANKS TODO COPYING $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+
+# The file HISTORY is missing in the source tarball but can be of interest
+# to some.
+cp -a $CWD/HISTORY $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+# Some additional explanations about BiCon's usage could help the user
+cp -a $CWD/README.Slackware $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/system/bicon/bicon.info b/system/bicon/bicon.info
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+PRGNAM="bicon"
+VERSION="0.5"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/behdad/bicon"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/behdad/bicon/releases/download/0.5/bicon-0.5.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="862972ed260f9e74277b8eeb7c81e126"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+REQUIRES=""
+MAINTAINER="Didier Spaier"
+EMAIL="didier at slint dot fr"
diff --git a/system/bicon/slack-desc b/system/bicon/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+     |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+bicon: bicon (a Bidirectional Console)
+bicon:
+bicon: BiCon can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with
+bicon: basic Unicode rendering (UTF-8).
+bicon:
+bicon: Run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian according
+bicon: to LANG or specify the country on the command line, for instance:
+bicon:   bicon ir # for Persian (Iran)
+bicon:
+bicon: Use alt+shift to switch keyboard layouts. See "man bicon".
+bicon: Keymaps and fonts for Arabic and Persian are included.