Re: arabic man pages, is it possible?

[khaled ghetas <dr dot khaled dot hosny at gmail dot com>]

On 6/3/05, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- khaled ghetas <dr dot khaled dot hosny at gmail dot com> wrote:
> >    This my first message to the doc mailing list.
> >    I'm a new member and want to participate in localizing GNU/Linux
> >    and in helping spread it among Arabs.
> 
> Great, welcome aboard !
> 
Thank you.
> >    I think translating man pages is a good thing and it will provide good
> >    help for Arabic users. But is it possible. If it is possible, how can
> >    we use it? I mean can we use the command 'man lilo' for example or in
> >    the case of Arabic maybe 'man lilo.ar' (or ar.lilo)?
> 
> A couple of people have posted about this topic on this list in the past
> (do please check Arabeyes' search engine on its webpage and/or google for
> the info).  Here is a thread worth pursuing [1] (the link(s) within are dated
> though), you should certainly contact the author 'Moayyad Al-Sadi' to come
> up to speed on his findings and do please relay the info back (and hopefully
> document it for the benefit of others),
> 
> [1]  http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/January/msg00066.html

I found these posts ,but why I need to contact Mr Moayyad I think he
explained what he found ( using browser instead of terminal to bypass
problems in viewing Arabic)
I think we can start the work now

Khaled Hosny