Re: Forking GNU libc locales

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

I really have no idea about the differences, so I'm CC'ing developer at arabeyes
list for help

- Ossama

--- Denis Barbier <barbier at linuxfr dot org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:09:00AM -0800, Ossama Khayat wrote:
> > --- Denis Barbier <barbier at linuxfr dot org> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I am working on forking GNU libc locales for more than 5 months,
> > > and have now something usable.
> > [...]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > Since this is related to locales, I can't see anything related to RTL
> languages
> > like Arabic or Hebrew or others.
> > So, is it that these are coming later on for support in Debian or is there
> any
> > thing we (as Arabic community) have to do about it?
> 
> AFAICT there is nothing to do at this level, how scripts are written is
> in the scope of renderer engines like pango.
> 
> But I have a question about Arabic: ar_SA has collation rules different
> from other ar_* locales.  Can you please tell me which one is right, ar_SA
> or ar_EG?
> In order to investigate this issue, you can write a file containing a list
> of words, each word on a single line.  You sort it manually according to
> Arabic collation rules (you may for instance get words from a good
> dictionary) and compare
>   LC_ALL=ar_SA sort file > file1.out
>   LC_ALL=ar_EG sort file > file2.out
> When collation rules are right, input and output are identical.
> 
> Denis


		
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