Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) and the slashdot interview

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

I noticed this in alaa's interview.
/*
>however it doesn't look like Mandrake tests their Arabic support (and 
unfortunately it seems the Arabic users community is not doing a good job of 
testing and bug reporting either), in Mandrake 10 OpenOffice would not render 
Arabic text correctly without installing FreeType packages made by PLF with 
the bytecode interpreter enabled, this problem is not inherit in OpenOffice 
since it worked fine with older versions.
*/

I doubt this is true. The MAPS project is specifically for serving this 
purpose. It yields some fruits. Please, take some time to know the latest 
status. I am sorry if I am not posting here when I commit a change but I have 
updated the page against the latest version Mandrake 10 some time ago. I have 
marked the bugs I tested (Fixed and Closed).

Any suggestions?


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