[Fwd: Re: Debian Installer?]

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Ayman:

As Nadim suggested. I should have all important discussions on the list
and I agree. Therefore, here is what I know:

1. There is a guy who did the patch for slang (used by ncurses which is
inturn used by Newt). The patch is a one liner apparantly and does the
bidi necessary for hebrew using fribidi. Here is the link to that :

http://www.arabbix.org/~anmar/slang_bidi/

2. The patch mentioned above uses fribidi. There is a problem with
respect to arabic as it does not support shaping in the current version
of fribidi. I recommend you use minibidi by Ahmand Khalifa. You can find
it on arabeyes under :

http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Adawat

Try and change the patch to use minibidi and we should be in business.
Please keep in mind that this patch is a simple hack to get the text to
properly render. this is not a locale nor a complete switch of the TUI
from right to left.

Let me know if you have any more Qs.

Thanks

Anmar

Ayman Negm wrote:
> Salam all,
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:42:56PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>
> > Approximately a week or so ago Ayman Negm (aka XSnack) noted on IRC
> > that he's looking into a patch to curses/slang/?? to add Bidi/Shaping
> > (he noted that he has resorted to lots of trial-n-error), I've also
> > heard that there is a patch already floating about but its author is
> > hot-n-heavy into finals at the moment (sorry, I can't access my other
> > machine to pull down the necessary info).
>
>
> I am still using try and error method :(
>
> > Ayman, you out there ?
>
>
> Yes I am there, sorry my family move to Egypt and I have to recover my
> system after hardware problem. Now I have more questions than answers, but I
> will continue as soon as I am finished with my real life stuff.
>
>
>
> > All these details can (and should) be gotten and coordinated from the
> > folks on #debian-boot (irc.freenode.net).
>
>
> I think we should solve this by our own, because no one from other
> nations is interested in Arabic ;-)
>
> Any help is appreciated
> Salam
> 	Ayman