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Re: Debian Installer (mini) Update
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Debian Installer (mini) Update
- From: Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:05:07 -0800 (PST)
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--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
[...]
> Very cool (and thanks) !
My pleasure :-)
> A couple of minor comments,
>
> 1. I've seen Arabic translated as "Al-Arabiya" and as "Arabi", are we
> being consistent within Arabeyes and with what is normal outside of
> it (note wikipedia.org for instance).
If you're referring to http://art.arabeyes.org/debian/1_G actually I've just
noticed it's not Al-Arabiya which we already use. I'll try to fix it in our
CVS.
> 2. This is a more fundamental question of alignment, is there talk or
> is anyone (within debian I'm guessing) looking at right-justifying
> Right-to-Left (RTL) text ?
I remember there was some discussion and it was decided that it will be fixed
in later releases IIRC.
> 3. It looks like tanween/diacritic characters are still not handled
> properly (the fatha, shadda, etc -- U+064B - U+0655 among others)
Same for this.
> Salam and keep up the wonderful work !
Mandrake to follow.. You think I should upload those[1] screenshots too?>
- Ossama
1. http://www.al-daleel.org/images/
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