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Re: Confused about justification



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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 14:20, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:
> Salam,
>
> When a line starts with a latin character, that whole
> line will be left-justified until the next newline
> character. If the line starts with an Arabic
> character, the whole line will be right-justified.
> Thats how it looks in Kbabel, but I don't know if its
> going to look that way too in the Fedora installer.
>
> If it will look that way too in the installer, its
> going to be really really ugly. All the word orders
> will be wrong. What should we do? The only solution
> I've found is to put an Arabic apostrophe "؛" to the
> beginning of the line.
>
> Should I continue doing this?

No. The direction of the paragraph is supposed to be handled by the program 
that uses the translation and not by kbabel. So please correct the messages 
in which you've been using that quote.

Salam,

> Abdulaziz,


- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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