Re: OpenOffice & Arabic

["Hatem Ben" <reflex_news at yahoo dot fr>]

http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/localized/1.0.0/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
To: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: OpenOffice & Arabic


> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:17:10AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>
> > Its nothing important (or worth mentioning :-), I just saw the article
> > and remembered my need to revisit this topic in search of a resolution.
> >
> >   http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,427069,00.asp
> >
>
> Ah.. I searched for something that was 'recent' and 'prompting' this post,
or
> so it seemed to imply.
>
> > Any comments otherwise ?
> >
>
> Follows..
>
> > I know that there was a patch created by IBM that was rejected due
> > to license issues and such (the patch's "Bidi Architect" Matitiahu
> > Allouche (matial -at- il.ibm.com) noted in mid May, "there [seems
> > to be] a misunderstanding between IBM and Sun regarding reception
> > of a copyright agreement"); the patch is attainable at,
>
> Yes, and it will not be used, period. Sun are writing their own
> implementation. Anything toward getting the pre-existing patches included
is
> in my opinion a waste of time. At least I have no interest in meddling
with
> their beurucratic problems.
>
> Last I corresponded with Dieter Loeschky (dieter.loeschky (at)
> germany.sun.com), who was pretty determined to write their own
> implementation. He said they were close to finishing it, and that was some
> time ago.. I would be interested to know what happened since.
>
> >  + There was a group of Tunisian students (as posted on Arabeyes) that
was
> >    working on arabizing the interface (localization/i18n work) - yet,
I'm
> >    not sure if they are in contact with anyone; they are not noted on
> >    OpenOffice's localization page either.
>
> I have tried to no avail to get a hold of them. I have gotten one response
> from the professor they worked under, but it was a one-liner and did not
have
> any kind of concrete content. I have given up on that being a real
project.
> >
> > Any comments before contacting Mati and OpenOffice's mailing-lists
> > regarding this topic ?  It seems like a shame to simply drop this patch
> > due to some bureaucracy/misunderstanding without at least a fight ;-)
> >
>
> I would instead recommend you contact the Sun folks and see what the
status is
> of their implementation, and what needs to be done for it. Mati may have
some
> insight or ideas and could possibly prove helpful, but I don't think
trying
> to get IBM's patches included will result in anything worthwhile.
>
> later
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