Re: [i18n] Mandrake l10n to Arabic

[Diego Iastrubni <elcuco at kdemail dot net>]

savah al hair!
I would say more then 3 months, since I have this new mail for more then that 
time....

anyway, if you use acca (accon whatever) my patch is useless. unless arabic 
shaping in incorporated into fribidi (as it should be in last march, this is 
what I have been hearing since December), not usable for you.

Well.... what do you want to know about this hack?

ביום חמישי, 15 באפריל 2004, 02:26, נכתב על ידי Youcef Rabah Rahal:
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> Hi,
>
> This email has been hiding in my mailbox for almost 3 months now (sorry
> about that, I totally forgot about it :-). I forward it to
> developer at arabeyes dot org so maybe someone can take a look at it.
>
> Regards,
>
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:42, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > Hi Youcef,
> >
> > Do you get arabic (reversed and shaped) under the console for urpm*
> > commands?
> >
> > If you don't, I have done some hacks which enable bidi rendering of
> > output messages from urpm*. I have tested them for hebrew, but since the
> > hacks use fribidi, I think it will work even for arabic. (can fribidi
> > also handle shaping? if not  we can hack it)
> >
> > If this does not help you, there is a project in arabeyes which displayes
> > a file containing arabic into the console no? see my hacks and try doing
> > the same for you app.
> >
> > http://iglu.org.il/mdkhe/urpmi/
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:34, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> > > Hello Pablo,
> > >
> > > I would like to do a follow-up for the email I sent you 2 days ago,
> > > which has not been answered yet :-)
> > >
> > > I would like to stress upon our will to have this issue (Mandrake l10n
> > > to Arabic) resolved as soon as possible to provide the Arabic user with
> > > a fully professional Arabic-friendly distribution: Installation + KDE
> > > and GNOME localized. The latter, as you know, is already being
> > > addressed by Arabeyes.org.
> > >
> > > Could you please answer the questions below:
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> - --
> Youcef R. Rahal
> Arabeyes.org
> http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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