Re: Bug#344161: aptitude with UNICODE+Bidi

[Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian dot org>]

Quoting Daniel Burrows (dburrows at debian dot org):


> > Maybe trying in debian-l10n-arabic....the list is not deeply active,
> > but that could be an occasion....
> 
>   My worst nightmare for several years has been that someone would pop up
> and demand bidirectional text support in aptitude.  Does that count?


Arf...:-)

Let's try to not leave the poor Daniel in his nightmare....

debian-l10n-arabic and Arabeyes people, here's a very interesting
horse to beat for you: how could we make aptitude BiDi friendly given
that we have most of the needed bricks for this:

-a good developer with deep knwoledge of his software
-a decent library for BiDi (libfribidi) but maybe not with C++ stuff
-motivated people (Arabeyes people?)
-very soon a good translation (Ossama?)

So, after putting some glue at the right places, there's nothing we
cannot do, don't you think?

PS for people added to this thread: aptitude is the now recommended
tool for Debian packages installation, selection and general
management. Daniel Burrows is aptitude's maintainer and Debian bug
#344161 is a request for BiDi support in aptitude...