Re: [i18n] Mandrake l10n to Arabic

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Hi,

This email has been hiding in my mailbox for almost 3 months now (sorry about 
that, I totally forgot about it :-). I forward it to developer at arabeyes dot org 
so maybe someone can take a look at it.

Regards,

On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:42, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> Hi Youcef,
>
> Do you get arabic (reversed and shaped) under the console for urpm*
> commands?
>
> If you don't, I have done some hacks which enable bidi rendering of output
> messages from urpm*. I have tested them for hebrew, but since the hacks use
> fribidi, I think it will work even for arabic. (can fribidi also handle
> shaping? if not  we can hack it)
>
> If this does not help you, there is a project in arabeyes which displayes a
> file containing arabic into the console no? see my hacks and try doing the
> same for you app.
>
> http://iglu.org.il/mdkhe/urpmi/
>
> On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:34, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> > Hello Pablo,
> >
> > I would like to do a follow-up for the email I sent you 2 days ago, which
> > has not been answered yet :-)
> >
> > I would like to stress upon our will to have this issue (Mandrake l10n to
> > Arabic) resolved as soon as possible to provide the Arabic user with a
> > fully professional Arabic-friendly distribution: Installation + KDE and
> > GNOME localized. The latter, as you know, is already being addressed by
> > Arabeyes.org.
> >
> > Could you please answer the questions below:

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Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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