On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 08:38, Christian Perrier wrote: > Dear Arabeyes contributors, > > The latest Debian Installer builds now work completely for the 1st > stage of the install in Arabic (probably some display problems here > and there, which we can't solve until we have an Arabic speaking > developer in the team). > > However, when reaching the 2nd stage of the install (after the system > reboot), the environment is then more or less that of the future > system. > > There, the locales ar "ar_XX" which are all using the ISO-8859-6 > charset by default. > > The result is a very bad display as, if I unerstood properly, the > ISO-8859-6 charset only includes basic Arabic characters. > > As a last minute fix, because of the upcoming release, I have changed > the default locales to be UTF-8 for Arabic, and the 2nd stage then > uses jfbterm as it does for Asian or Hebrew languages. > > Do you think that choosing this is OK and will not hurt our future > Arabic users? It should have always been UTF-8 is what I think ;) -- Regards ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.openius.com/| -------------------------------------------------------
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