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Re: arabic man pages, is it possible?
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: arabic man pages, is it possible?
- From: khaled ghetas <dr dot khaled dot hosny at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:04:40 +0300
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On 6/3/05, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- khaled ghetas <dr dot khaled dot hosny at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > This my first message to the doc mailing list.
> > I'm a new member and want to participate in localizing GNU/Linux
> > and in helping spread it among Arabs.
>
> Great, welcome aboard !
>
Thank you.
> > I think translating man pages is a good thing and it will provide good
> > help for Arabic users. But is it possible. If it is possible, how can
> > we use it? I mean can we use the command 'man lilo' for example or in
> > the case of Arabic maybe 'man lilo.ar' (or ar.lilo)?
>
> A couple of people have posted about this topic on this list in the past
> (do please check Arabeyes' search engine on its webpage and/or google for
> the info). Here is a thread worth pursuing [1] (the link(s) within are dated
> though), you should certainly contact the author 'Moayyad Al-Sadi' to come
> up to speed on his findings and do please relay the info back (and hopefully
> document it for the benefit of others),
>
> [1] http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2004/January/msg00066.html
I found these posts ,but why I need to contact Mr Moayyad I think he
explained what he found ( using browser instead of terminal to bypass
problems in viewing Arabic)
I think we can start the work now
Khaled Hosny