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Re: Arabeyes in Windows magazine

Arafat:

Is there a bug request for Arabic on Evolution ? if there is please post it. If not , please le me know and I will add it.

Personally I think Evolution needs two things to support arabic:

1. Translation of the interface
2. a button on the compose screen that switches the text message to RTL and vice versa. just like GIMP text tool.

Anmar

Arafat Medini wrote: 
the problem with evo is well-known :"no Arabic support planned for now".
As they are very busy with redesign, I don't know when evo will recieve
arabic goodness BUT it is opted to be included into the gnome 2.6
release so maybe we can speak to the gnome ppl then...

Am Sam, 2003-11-01 um 07.06 schrieb Mohammed Elzubeir:

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:00:06PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote:

The Arabeyes project has made it into the September issue of the
"Windows - Middle East" magazine. Page 12 has a side feature titled
"Arabeyes-ation" that discusses the OpenOffice arabization project.

Just to quote from several sections:
[LINUX development group Arabeyes is looking to create a fully
functional, Arabised version of OpenOffice. The project will will take
approximately six months, will see the addition of the correct
bi-directional algorithm....]

["OpenOffice is a good alternative to Microsoft. The problem is that
IBM submitted patches to fix up the Arabic and while it kind of worked,
it was only useable if you were testing. However, Sun rejected them [the
changes] and as Sun leads the development it just didn't happen"
explained Arabeyes spokesperson, Mohammed Elzubeir.]

["Arabeye's initial review of the software revealed that both
OpenOPffice and Evolution, an outlook like e-mail client [...], required
a number of additional features. Foremost among these is a need for a
bidirectional algorithm..."].

Regarding the last quote, evolution has been ported to GTK 2.X for quite
a while now. Already several releases have been made (1.4X series). This
means the usual PANGO capabilities.

I'm sorry if I missed any initial OpenOffice discussions, where exactly
is this work going? Have you guys taken into account the Ximian GTK2
patches for OpenOffice (i18n of the UI)?


Well, first of all those quotes are not exact. In either case, this was
before OOo's good bidi support. As far as Evolution goes.. we all know,
it has very crappy bidi support. 

We intended to work directly on OOo but it seems that there is little
left to do (aside from duali integration).

Regards 


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