Re: bidi support

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:54, Chaudhary arian wrote:
> salamz..i am new here and my question is simple
> 1) is bidi support included in arabix...if not then by how much time it will 
> be ? ....if yes then plz tell me the url where i can get the version of 
> arabix wich support it.....

Salam,

First of all, it's Arabbix and not Arabix (note the 'b's). Yes, the
applications shipped with Arabbix do have bidi support. It is not as
simple as saying 'this distro has bidi support'. 

> 2) i tried one version of arabix ( i dont remember version name) but what to 
> say of bidi i couldnt even type arabic in it .......

If you can't remember the version, it is very hard for us to tell you if
it is something you are doing wrong or it was something broken in the
distro version you used.

The latest (0.8) works just fine for me (and all others I have seen use
it -- as far as arabic input/output). Check http://bugs.arabeyes.org/
for Arabbix bugs to know what is missing so you know what to expect.

> 3) is there arabix live distrobution in kde supporting bidi in applications 
> like k office ....keidt ?

The distribution includes a packages. Some packages are meta-packages
(ie. a list of several packages). KDE is a meta-package in most
instances. Arabbix does not include KDE. This is because of several
reasons, but a good enough one would be, the KDE Arabic translation is
not complete enough to package.

> 
> plz dont refer me to the articles at www.arabix.net ..i just want to first 
> get the basic idea how much work has been done by u folk......thank u 
> ...Allah hafiz ......mubeen
> 

I have no idea what arabix.net is. If you want information about Arabbix
Linux distribution, check it here:
  http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=arabbix

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir