Re: GNU libc locales

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> I really have no idea about the differences, so I'm CC'ing arabeyes'
> "developer" list for help

Ossama, any resolution on this topic ?

More below.
 
> --- 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.
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > 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?

Denis, can you point out what these rules are (sorry, but this is
a completely new topic to me (and possibly others)).

> > 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.

Ossama, did you try this ?  Can we bring to closure this issue/topic ?

Regards & Salam,

 - Nadim

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