Arabic support in OpenOffice [was: OpenOffice 1.0.1 arabic support]

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Salam All,
I just tested build 643 of OO and it got better arabic support. Text
is properly shaped now.
A screenshot:
http://amaoui.free.fr/misc/images/OOar.png

Regards,
Hicham

Christian Kalkhoff wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> I need to know how good the arabic support in latest OpenOffice.org is.
> One of my customers needs the suite. We testet 1.0 which seemed to not
> be able to support writing from right to left.
>
> Another thing are the menu fonts. The Arabic version only shows ???
> instead of menus. I don't know, which font is used with this program.
>
> I hope you have any clue.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian Kalkhoff
>