Re: New to the List

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

waleed Hosny wrote:

> Salam All, 

Salam Waleed,

> I am new to the list and i would like to participate in the ongoing 
> effort of localizing Gnome. But i guess i need to go through a 
> learning phase first to understand the Gnome architecture and how to 
> localize gnome interface.
> So can any one point me to resources that can help me start learning 
> to be an active member in this list ? 

Please read the faqs on arabeyes.org

> One more question,
> We have different platforms that supports Gnome (Solaris, Linux) with 
> different Arabic support (solaris supports iso8859-6 and unicode, i m 
> not sure what is the most popular Arabic standards in linux now) but 
> how does gnome handles input methods in this case and how does the 
> translated UI will work under different layout engines ? 

I don't know for solaris, but under linux the input method is  handled 
by xfree and gtk.
For output, I think all platforms supported by gnome can display arabic 
if you have arabic
fonts installed and properly configured. See pango.org for more info.

> Regards,
> Waleed 

Hicham