Re: Arabic on OpenSolaris?

[Waleed Hosny <Waleed dot Hosny at Sun dot COM>]

Hi,

Solaris already supports both ISO8859-6 and UTF-8 (both include Arabic 
support), and the desktop (AKA Sun Java system desktop) is based on 
Gnome and hence it includes the localized Arabic gnome that Arabeyes 
develop :)

Regards,
Waleed


Gregg Reynolds wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anybody have any experience using Arabic stuff on OpenSolaris? 
> I've just been googling around for info on Sun's open source 
> initiatives re: Solaris and it looks very promising indeed, assuming 
> the licensing is ok.  (See for example http://www.opensolaris.org/os/,
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Nexenta_OS,
> etc.)
>
> ZFS in particular looks almost miraculous; that alone is almost enough 
> to make me switch.  If I were in charge of a data center looking at 
> Open Source stuff I'd take a long hard look at some version of 
> OpenSolaris. So why not Arabbix/OpenSolaris?
>
> I know there's considerable effort being made to produce an Arabbix 
> based on Ubuntu linux; I wonder how well Solaris does Arabic, and how 
> hard it would be to Arabize it.  It might make a great pairing with 
> Ubuntu - Arabixx/Solaris for the server room, Arabbix/Linux for the 
> desktop.
>
> -gregg
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