Re: Mandrake in Arabic

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

I believe later versions of Mandrake (10+) have better Arabic
integration and support.  In any regard, your email is being
CC'ed to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list and you should check
its archives [1] for any further replies and help (in case
people don't outright CC you).

BTW: Thanks for finally offering linux to schools, its a much
     needed alternative; we just hope linux's benefits are being
     conveyed to decision makers and administers properly.

[1] http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php

Regards,

 - Nadim

--- Chad Russell <chad dot russell at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I work for a company that produces educational software; our software
> is used in about 6000 schools in Saudi Arabia currently.  Up to now we
> have taught exclusively Windows software but are now preparing Linux
> software for the students.  However in order to do this we need to
> install Linux Mandrake in Arabic at our office.  I have installed
> Mandrake 9.1 with Arabic language support and installed the arabeyes
> truetype fonts located at:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabeyes/ae_fonts1_ttf_1.1.tar.bz2
> 
> I install the fonts and reboot but KDE doesn't function properly, the
> right-to-left doesn't seem to work correctly and not everything is in
> Arabic.  Also, I get a crash when booting; this results in the window
> title bar (with application name, minimize, maximize and close
> buttons) not appearing.
> 
> I have tried to install kde-i18n-ar.rpm but get an error saying it
> can't find kconfig_compiler.  I haven't been able to find out much
> information on kconfig_compiler, it is supposed to be in kdelibs, I
> have installed kdelibs but still get the same error.
> 
> I was wondering if you could send me a suggestion on how to get this
> up and running, or, since the tranlation process is still ongoing,
> that I can't really get much better for now.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated as I know how busy you must be.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chad Russell
> AlignMedia.com



		
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