Arabeyes in Windows magazine

[Samy Al Bahra <samy at kerneled dot com>]

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)?

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