Re: Need for a debian-l10n-bidi mailing list?

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

Forwarding to 'developer' list on Arabeyes to see what others can help us with
in regards to d-i.

- Ossama

--- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian dot org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:23:52PM +0430, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> > On Shanbe 23 Khordad 1383 12:02, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > As we probably now all know, Steve Langasek, who now should be able to
> > > travel freely with his wife in all countries with right-to-left
> > > languages, has implemented BiDi support in the needed libraries so
> > > that Debian Installer and all slang-based text user interfaces in
> > > Debian, can properly display RTL languages (including Arabic shaping).
> > Special thanks to Steve for doing this great work! i looked at the screen 
> > shots and was just great!
> > What I worry about now is four farsi specific characters.
> 
> The shaping code used in slang is derived from code from arabeyes.org
> which claims to support Farsi shaping as well as Arabic.
> 
> The actual glyphs needed for Farsi will be automatically included in the
> d-i images (I hope -- this does assume they're present in unifont) once
> a Farsi translation is available.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer

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regards,
Ossama Khayat


	
		
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