Haiku in languages other than Japanese published by the Estonian Writers' Union's magazine "Looming" ("Creation"). Estonian haiku have been actively translated into Finnish. Jhinabhai Desai introduced Haiku in Gujarati literature and popularized it. "Soneri Chand Rooperi Suraj" (1967) is the collection of 359 haiku and six Tanka poems. "Kevalveej" (1984) and "Sunrise on the Snowpeaks" are his other haiku collections. Dhiru Parikh published Haiku collection titled "Aagiya" in 1982. Haiku poetry is a relatively new practice in the Arabic literature. It wasn't until 2010 when the first book was published by a Syrian writer Muhammad Adimah containing 1000 haiku translated from Japanese directly. Although most of
Haiku Vector Icon Format Haiku Vector Icon Format Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is a vector storage format designed to store icons, specifically for Haiku. Haiku developers commonly agreed that Haiku could not be released with original BeOS R5 icons. Since Haiku needed its own artwork anyway, it was thought that icons could switch to vectors graphics from traditional BeOS bitmaps. In July 2006 Haiku developer Stephan Aßmus introduced Icon-O-Matic, the icon editor of Haiku, and a storage format with a rendering engine based on Anti-Grain Geometry. After a few days of discussion, Aßmus announced a contest to determine an icon theme for Haiku.