Re: Arabeyes -- a critique

[Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

 --- Alaa Abd El Fattah <alaa at manalaa dot net> wrote: 
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:29:04 +0000 (GMT)
> Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
> 
> > May I use the opportunity to say that it is my opinion that it will
> > not get'done'? I cannot see a clear 'end of the road' for 'Arabize
> > FOSS' as long as there is new FOSS everyday..
> 
> that would actually be a very bad thing.

+1

> 
> I think the proper way to do arabization is for it to be transparent to
> the developers, the current system where we have to test each an every
> app for Unicaode, Bidi and shaping and we have to patch each and every
> app for unicode bidi and shaping is ridiculous.
> 
> I'm hoping core libraries would one day do these things for us that all
> GUI apps would automatically support arabic.
> 

On this, true. I meant things like translation.

> the work might never end, but that should be because of new needs not
> just because of new foss.
> 
> and IMO this is part of the problem, we don't have the manpower to run
> after each and every little project, Arabeyes should focus on broad
> strokes that make arabic support automatic.

Good point. I have touched on that on my next message, see
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2005/January/msg00071.html

> 
> we could for instance lobby FreeDesktop.org for something like this.
> 
> cheers,
> Alaa
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Salam,
Muhammad Alkarouri

Was it 6*7:)


	
	
		
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